Follies in the public administration: the government allocates new billions, the unions protest
The government allocates billions more for the public administration, yet the unions are threatening a strike. This is the contradiction that emerges between moves by the government and the unions on the public administration. All the details
The government allocates billions more for the public administration, yet the unions are threatening a strike.
This is the contradiction that emerges between moves by the government and the unions on the public administration.
Let's see what happened.
A fund contained in the draft law of the financial maneuver makes 3.63 billion available from next year to 2033, with a stabilization from 315.4 million annually from that year, for the hires that the ministries and the central public administration in general they will be able to carry out in derogation of the general rules that limit spending and turnover, writes Il Sole 24 Ore .
Yet the civil service trade unions snort. On the merits and in particular on the PA front, the categories Fp-Cgil, Cisl-Fp, Uil-Fpl and Uil-Pa say they are ready to field the strike of the public sectors, because – they argue – on hiring and renewal of contracts in the Public Administration in the maneuver "there are no adequate responses" and complained for some time.
"The Government calls us to confrontation after the approval of the Budget law and after having illustrated it on social networks", says the general secretary of UIL, Pierpaolo Bombardieri, before the meeting not yet started in the evening, thus expressing the protest of the union: "In coherence with the methods of the government, we too will immediately spread our positions and propose to the government the streaming of our discussions". Method that does not even like Cgil and Cisl.
The comparison then – underlines a reconstruction of Ansa – of the general secretaries Maurizio Landini, Annamaria Furlan and Pierpaolo Bombardieri, with the prime minister and the ministers of Labor, Economy and Economic Development, Nunzia Catalfo, Roberto Gualtieri and Stefano Patuanelli . With Gualtieri underlining how the maneuver “could be strengthened in some respects. We will strengthen – he says speaking during the meeting – the intervention on both 2020 and 2021 through the budget gap ": In a framework that" must be read in the intertwining "with the Recovery plan and the refreshment decrees. And that, therefore, will also have other spaces for discussion.
On the public administration, however, the mobilization continues. "For years we have been asking to focus on the serious emergency employment in public administrations", say the respective general secretaries of FP-CGIL, CISL-FP, UIL-FP and UIL-PA, Serena Sorrentino, Maurizio Petriccioli, Michelangelo Librandi and Nicola Turco , nor on the contractual front "the government has chosen to invest" to relaunch an "urgent and necessary reform of the classification system and a major staff retraining plan".
The unions point out that there are "few resources for wages". There is no PA minister, Fabiana Dadone , who talks about the "off-scale" attitude of the unions and claims that the funds put in place are "unprecedented" and respond to "concrete and detailed needs". And, he underlines, "I am working with the Mef to enhance the work within the state machinery as much as possible, which is increasingly focusing on continuous training, digitalisation, smart working and administrative simplification".
For the unions, on the other hand, at present, compared to the statements of the government in recent weeks, "we do not see the necessary change" and they say "enough to devalue the work". Thus they prepare for “general mobilization: it is time to change the PA and to do it with those who represent the work. Either there will be the government table with the categories to recover the resources necessary for change or we will continue in our action to fight ”, they warn, noting that in this country's emergency situation,“ public workers have acted with great responsibility ”.
HERE IS AN EXTRACT FROM THE TODAY'S ARTICLE OF THE SUN 24 HOURS:
“A particularly rich chapter is the one that the new maneuver dedicates to the public sector. Which in title 14 of the bill finds not only additional resources for contract renewal. But also a fund, also new in the mechanism, which makes 3.63 billion available from next year to 2033, with a stabilization from 315.4 million annually from that year, for the recruitments that the ministries and the central public administration in general they will be able to carry out in derogation of the general rules that limit spending and turnover. A first package of new entries is already detailed in the text of the maneuver. For example, which provides for 3,280 recruitments in justice, 140 to the Ministry of Agricultural Policies, 250 to the Viminale, 142 to the Ministry of Health, 550 to the territorial State Accounting Offices, 61 to the national agency for payments in agriculture and so on. The PAs in the South will then be able to hire 2,800 people over the next three years (126 million annual expenditure) for the management of European funds.
At least to read the text of the maneuver, in short, the public sector does not seem affected by the employment and income crisis that is overwhelming almost all the private sectors. Rather. In the maneuver there are the additional 400 million promised a few weeks ago by the government which bring the total allocation for the contract renewal for 2019/2021 to 3.8 billion. The state budget, as always, collects the necessary funds for the central public administration contract. On the other hand, as regards regions, local authorities, universities and health care, the autonomous territorial budgets will have to find the necessary resources to guarantee employees the same increases envisaged in the center. The total cost for public finance consequently rises to 6.7 billion ”.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/ecco-le-bizzarrie-sindacali-sulla-pubblica-amministrazione-il-governo-stanzia-nuovi-miliardi-i-sindacati-protestano/ on Tue, 17 Nov 2020 14:40:03 +0000.