Blocking layoffs is useless, we need to focus on active labor policies
The speech by Giovanni Assi, national director of Unimpresa
A real déjà-vu, this is what looking at the situation of the labor market seems to (re) live! It was March 7, 2021 when the last umpteenth serious delay in the payment of the social shock absorber was reported and after two months there are again 750 thousand artisan workers waiting for their layoffs (which for them is called FSBA ) for more than four months, their last allowance dates back to the month of December 2020: yes, over 120 days of delay for the collection of their salary and despite yet another signature by Minister Orlando on April 29, 2021 of the pennies at the moment not even the shadow!
It seems like yesterday and instead it was the month of August 2020 when a company launched the first alarm on the probable bleeding of jobs, estimating over 1 million jobs if medium-long term strategies were not adopted, yet today despite the number of employees has already dropped by 945 thousand units in the comparison between February 2021 and 2020 (and the ban has not yet ended) and the block is now close to its nth expiry, the only solution we are talking about is exclusively to postpone once again and the blockade is enough, which would be useless if not accompanied by structural policies that provide for active labor policies, this would mean continuing to hide the dust under the carpet, probably postponing the loss of another 610,000 jobs by a few months.
One could go on indefinitely in highlighting “untreated” situations that have cyclically recurred in these long fourteen months, the truth is that we need to reform, not patch up. But to reform we need a policy that is no longer shortsighted and so far unable to look beyond its nose, planning the life of our companies and their workers with medium / long-term policies. We need a policy that is no longer deaf and unable to really listen to the screams of alarm that economic operators repeatedly launch. Above all, a competent policy is needed because it is possible to make mistakes, but persevering in making mistakes is a clear sign of unpreparedness and unpreparedness on the skin of entrepreneurs and workers' families is creating irreparable damage.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/il-blocco-dei-licenziamenti-non-serve-bisogna-puntare-su-politiche-attive-del-lavoro/ on Sat, 08 May 2021 06:21:25 +0000.