Suspend the Dignity decree | The paper

On the issues of work there is an important issue that the government will have to tackle. On March 31, the term expires, previously extended from December 31, 2020, which extends the provision of the “Relaunch” decree which allows companies to renew forward contracts in the absence of a reason. Without prejudice to the total maximum duration of 24 months, the law allows the temporary employment relationship to be extended for a maximum of 12 months. This is a measure of normal common sense, which, moreover, was also one of the points of the so-called Colao plan (the current Minister for Innovation), wanted and announced with great fanfare by the former premier Conte, for “employment and the restart of businesses “. Yet it is a norm that encounters strong opposition, especially in the M5s, because it is a totem of the “Dignity” decree. In the intentions of the then Minister of Labor Luigi Di Maio the obligation to motivate the renewal of the fixed-term contract should have pushed and increased the transformations towards permanent contracts. This has not always been the case, because very often the law has produced a rotation of term hires. But such a rule, which may not create many problems in an expansionary phase, is deleterious in a very deep crisis like this, where the strong recession is accompanied by great uncertainty: in such a situation, moreover with the blocking of layoffs , it is highly unlikely that a company will decide to transform temporary contracts into permanent ones. We have already seen in this pandemic that the collapse in employment mainly occurred due to the termination of fixed-term contracts. Not extending the suspension of the causal until the end of the year would simply make many people lose their jobs, mainly young people and women, who do not even have a network of social safety nets.