The Short Week has officially entered Parliament’s agenda, with three proposals from Avs (Fratoianni), M5s (Conte) and Pd (Scotto) included in the Chamber’s Labor Commission. Three different texts that aim to reduce working hours, with the same salary, with different prescriptive levels. Starting from identifying a new number of hours to replace the current forty: Avs speaks of 34, the M5s of 32 while the Democratic Party’s proposal remains on a more cautious indication of a period of experimentation without too many limits and with the widening the scope of the New Skills Fund to incentivize companies.
Short week, here are the models from other countries. From the French idea of divorcees to the Dutch “generational pact”.
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The first Dem signatory, Arturo Scotto, launched an appeal to the government: “Listen to us. If it is true that the whole of Europe is moving in the direction of reducing working hours, Italy must not be late for the umpteenth time.” For the group leader in the Labor commission, the starting text “is a streamlined basis, close to the experiences gained abroad and which can support attempts to include the reduction of working hours in collective bargaining, as in the case of metalworkers who in their platform proposes 35 hours”.
Two out of three Italians would like to work less. The rule of “doing the bare minimum” wins
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From Avs, the group leader in the Labor commission, Franco Mari, calls for a unitary proposal along the lines of the minimum wage. In the Avs text there is also an equity statement to finance the measure. Opening from Scotto: “We are ready to discuss with everyone, indeed we hope to also involve the center opposition: our approach is difficult for the government to contest.” The auditions will now start. The president of the Labor Commission, Walter Rizzetto (Fdi)has scheduled them after the establishment of the three legislative proposals last Thursday, but is treading carefully: “It’s a very current issue – he admits, and then adds – but I think the goal to be reached is before increasing the productivity of our companies”. Scotto disagrees: “For years we have been first in the OECD rankings for hours worked and last for increase in productivity. It is a theme that affects other areas: precariousness, lack of propensity for innovation. The reduction of hours, however, offers a dividend in terms of work-life balance, safeguarding jobs in the face of the advance of artificial and environmental intelligence, for the reduction of travel and the decongestation of cities”. For Scotto, in short, “the market is moving towards new work organisations, it’s time for Parliament to do its part”.
But what do the three proposals actually say? Here is the detail of the forecasts, from reduced hours to interventions on overtime and permits, through to costs and sanctions.
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– 2024-04-06 15:31:37
