I’ll explain how Brunetta won the battle for the return of public employees to the offices
From 15 October, the ordinary way of carrying out work in public administrations is that carried out in the presence, established the Dpcm signed by Draghi. Giuliano Cazzola's analysis
Renato Brunetta has won another battle. Mario Draghi signed the Dpcm which sends public employees back to the offices.
Starting from next October 15, the ordinary way of carrying out work in public administrations is that carried out in presence.
It is up to the administrations to ensure compliance with the measures to contain the risk of contagion from Covid-19 issued by the competent authorities.
For Minister Brunetta it was, perhaps, the most difficult and opposed result among the important ones achieved in the first half of government activity.
It also happened that some more refined critic accused him of neoluddism because he expressed reservations about how smart working was implemented in administrations during the health crisis.
THE FULL TEXT OF THE DPCM FOR THE RETURN IN PRESENCE
Complaints also came from the trade unions, as if they had forgotten how much, with regard to agile work, was foreseen in the Pact of 10 March to realize that even then the parties shared a common assessment on the limits found: '' With reference to performance carried out at a distance (agile work), it is necessary to place oneself in the perspective of overcoming emergency management, by defining, in future national collective agreements, a discipline that guarantees transparent working conditions, which favors productivity and orientation to results, reconciles the needs of male and female workers with the organizational needs of Public Administrations, allowing, at the same time, the improvement of public services and the balance between professional and private life ''.
Let's face it: smart working in the PA was a measure dictated by health reasons, to limit the mobility of people as much as possible, even at the cost of not ensuring the continuity of the service, as long as the employees did not go around.
Brunetta explains it: '' There is still no secure platform dedicated to smart working in the Public Administration – he wrote in Il Foglio – the interoperability of databases is an ongoing process, often employees have been forced to work using their own computer and their devices ''.
Furthermore '' working from home during the covid emergency, therefore, certainly did not allow those processes of organizational transformation with a view to defining specific and measurable performance objectives, aimed at recognizing greater autonomy and responsibility for the employee ''.
In short. The PA, as it is put today, with all the limitations (including structural and technological) on the side of digitization, has moved – this was the prevailing reality – to the home for months. The return to the offices is therefore a restoration of normality.
THE FULL TEXT OF THE DPCM FOR THE RETURN IN PRESENCE
It is interesting to read the report accompanying the Dpcm . In the current historical and economic phase that the country is experiencing, it is necessary to support – it is written – in the activities related to the development of productive activities and the implementation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) and, for this purpose, it is necessary to allow the administrations public to operate at the best of their abilities.
To this end – it should be remembered – the decree-law 21 September 2021, n. 127, also extended to public sector workers the obligation to possess and exhibit the green certification Covid-19 (so-called green pass), a circumstance that strengthens the safety framework of work in the presence and that allows to strengthen the need to overcome the modality of using agile work in the emergency period as one of the ordinary ways of carrying out the work performance to allow public administrations to give maximum support to the resumption of productive activities and to families, through the return to work in presence as an ordinary way of work performance.
This also considering that the statistical data received from the offices of the Extraordinary Commissioner show that among public employees, who are altogether just over 3.2 million, or equal to about 5.4% of the Italian population, those not obliged to vaccinate against Covid-19 (i.e. excluding health personnel, education personnel and those of the FFAA and FDP) are estimated at just over 900 thousand units. Of these, those already vaccinated can be estimated at around 583 thousand units.
On the basis of regional data percentages of the vaccinated population and also taking into account the 5% of the employees obliged but not yet vaccinated mentioned above, it is possible to estimate that about 320 thousand public employees are not yet vaccinated, with extremely variable percentages between a territory and the other. The situation, therefore, is not without its problems. And it was therefore important to extend the green pass in public administrations.
The government has held, however, that, given the gradual but progressive increase in the number of vaccinated also among the population of civil servants, the conditions for a gradual return to the presence, and in safety, of public employees.
This return, however – specifies the report, will not be immediate, but gradual and accompanied by specific indications provided to all administrations by decree of the Minister for the PA, obviously in compliance with the framework of the measures to combat the epidemiological phenomenon adopted by the competent authorities.
THE FULL TEXT OF THE DPCM FOR THE RETURN IN PRESENCE
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/vi-spiego-come-brunetta-ha-vinto-la-battaglia-per-il-ritorno-dei-dipendenti-pubblici-negli-uffici/ on Sat, 25 Sep 2021 06:23:08 +0000.