I’ll explain why the Inpgi will merge into the INPS (and why the big journalistic firms don’t tell you)
Inpgi case in the INPS. Journalists are one of the categories in which the young / old contradiction that fascinates them so much in their articles (dedicated to other sectors) is most evident and marked. Giuliano Cazzola's analysis
The incorporation of the Inpgi into the INPS – as envisaged by the 2022 budget bill – is a vengeance of fate.
The '' signatures '' of newspapers as well as the hosts of talk shows attacked the pension payments of all the others, they took it out on the annuities, the golden pensions, the privileges of the salary calculation; they set up relentless campaigns called like the files of a power of attorney: rentalpoli, selloff cities and anything else related to the management of the real estate assets of the social security institutions.
They accused the INPS of inefficiency, when during the health crisis, the institution of via Ciro il Grande found itself having to multiply the number of services as a result of the measures arranged for the emergency.
Let us take only one very significant data: the disbursement of the Cig. On average, in a normal way, over the course of a year 800 thousand workers are interested in this service – not continuously -; during the pandemic it reached 6.5 million. The beauty is that the news concerning the pensions of journalists (as well as those relating to their contracts) have always been obscured and removed from the attention of public opinion.
If someone like myself dared to talk about it in a televised debate, to defend themselves from the indictment of the censor on duty (there are journalists who have made fortunes by publishing essays in which they were ridiculed, complete with name and surname, the pensions received by some public figures) the answer was the usual: “But the Inpgi is a private case”.
I would like to see the face of these '' Solons '' if, faced with the risk of bankruptcy of the Giovanni Amendola Institute, the government and charged first with general taxation, then with the Institute) replied: “But what do you want from me? When you demanded the '' privatization '' of the Inpgi, the commitment was that you would make do ''. That's right.
Because in 1993 to pull the sprint for the “ privatization '' (the management of compulsory social security, including the rules of benefits and contributions, entrusted to the autonomy, supervised, of bodies elected by the categories) were precisely the Inpgi ( with the firepower of the press) and the Inpdai (the historic social security institution of industrial managers).
Therefore, the latter Institute, after the launch of the implementing decree in 1994, was unable to meet the requirements required to change the regime.
Then years later he married the INPS, taking his debt with him. The Inpgi, on the other hand, succeeded in its intent by becoming part of the world of self-employed funds, which were later associated with the Adeep, as the only body of employees.
Nobless oblige , in close alliance with the Fnsi, the power group that has handed down the management of the Inpgi has always rejected the INPS lifesaver with disdain, in the name of '' freedom of the press ''.
Months ago, President Giuseppe Giulietti even wrote an open letter of this nature to the President of the Republic. Then evidently "fasting more than pain could" or at least the prospect of fasting.
Heeled by the budget laws, the Inpgi has adopted, over time, some measures to contain spending; but the objective on which it was aiming was to widen the contribution base by law, incorporating the 17 thousand "professional communicators" now registered with INPS.
It would not have been the first time such operations have been carried out. For INPS, the loss was bearable. But usually these operations are subject to the option of the interested parties. There would never have been a consistent number of "communicators" willing to go to the Inpgi with the times. Also because in a few years they would return, together with all the others, to where they left off: to INPS, formerly a "factory", now a "hospital" for pensions.
Journalists were the last to foresee the application – pro rata – of the contribution regime. In this way, the calculation for pension purposes of the INPGI rules is brought to the Employee Fund at the INPS and until 30 June 2022, while those of the FPLD will apply pro rata from the following 1 July.
The same principle also applies to other aspects such as the ceiling established in the contribution system by the 1995 reform.
The incorporation and the safeguards provided have raised a tough objection via twitter from Tito Boeri who went so far as to hypothesize a cut in performance because "it is not tolerable – in the opinion of the former INPS president – that reckless choices fall once more on the shoulders of young people ”.
Boeri is not new to proposing drastic solutions and has sometimes managed to get them through. In this case, the decision-making autonomy of the category aggravates the responsibility because it is visible the indefinite defense of the figure of the elderly journalist compared to those who have recently started the profession.
As always happens, social security failures depend only in part on the obstinacy with which now unsustainable regulations are defended; the cause of a structural nature – for the condition of journalists, their salary and social security treatment – has deep roots in the transformations and landslides of the information labor market also dependent on the effects of technological innovation that first hit polygraphers and then journalists .
As regards the first aspect, the Inpgi, as we have already mentioned, was the last body to adopt the contribution calculation: pro rata and in full for new hires from 2017. It rained on the Institute, by agreement between the Fieg and the Fnsi, the tile (wrapped by a wall of silence) of the former fixed transformed into a sort of indemnity for failure to notify in the event of termination of the employment relationship by the company and in cases of resignation of the journalist with 55 years of age and 10 years of seniority in the company, or with a seniority of more than 15 years, regardless of age. This was until a settlement was found.
It is well known that the sector has been in crisis – for some time – with regard to the collapse of copies sold, the loss of turnover and the decrease in employment, as well as the new way of communicating. But the crucial point, in terms of pensions for journalists, is another: retirees and those close to retirement belong to a different world from that of taxpayers. But they managed to bring the status they had in the old to the new world.
In no other sector have technologies caused such a clear break between those who, in a pay-as-you-go financing system, receive pensions and those who pay contributions. A few years ago, the association LSDI (Freedom of the press right to information) in a Report on journalism in Italy, highlighted the crisis of the profession "with the intense growth of underpaid self-employment, which has become a large pocket of precarious work, as shown, among other things, by the fact that the average income of employed journalists is 5.4 times higher than that of "freelancers" (60 thousand euros gross per year against 11 thousand) and the fact that eight out of ten self-employed workers ( '82, 7%) declare incomes of less than 10 thousand euros per year ''.
Basically, since the beginning of the century the share of "self-employed" work has increased by ten points. Journalists are one of the categories in which the young / old contradiction that fascinates them so much in their articles (dedicated to other sectors) is most evident and marked.
While the pensions paid or to be paid in the coming years have their roots in the salaries of the '' Belle époque '' of journalism, those of current taxpayers are navigating an increasingly deconstructed labor market.
Suffice it to say that the amount of the average pension of journalists (of old fashioned) is in third place (67 thousand euros in 2019 equal to 74% of the average income) in the value scale after notaries and university professors.
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-perche-linpgi-confluira-nellinps-e-perche-le-grandi-firme-giornalistiche-non-ve-lo-dicono/ on Sat, 30 Oct 2021 06:44:53 +0000.