Pension reform, what the government will do
In the government's maneuver, postponements and extensions without vision on pension reform. Giuliano Cazzola's comment
In the 2021 budget bill – according to the texts of the drafts – work and welfare more generally find space in various articles, but the logic always responds to the same criteria: "refreshment", incentives, targeted funding , renewal, extension and postponement. If anyone requires a vision or a coordinated program, please review. As stated by the total commissioner Domenico Arcuri: be patient. The Day of Advent will arrive together with the Recovery fund in view of which the Government will prepare reform plans which – they say at Palazzo Chigi – will free us from the anguish of making a living.
As far as work is concerned, the two Horsemen of the Apocalypse continue to proceed in pairs: one in support of the other. On the one hand, the extension of the Covid-19 redundancy fund is envisaged for a further 12 weeks, to be used by 31 March 2021. The same limit also applies to the prohibition of dismissal as well as for the use of the exemption from the payment of social security contributions for employers workers who renounce the layoffs. The 12 weeks must be placed in the period between January 1, 2021 and March 31, 2021 for ordinary layoffs, and in the period between January 1, 2021 and June 30, 2021 for the treatment of ordinary check and Redundancy fund in derogation.
In terms of increased employment, the draft confirms the line of hiring incentives, strengthening both the legislation and the resources available in the South. In fact, the 100% exemption from contributions, for a maximum period of thirty-six months, within the maximum limit for an amount equal to 6,000 euros, for the recruitment of individuals who at the date of the first incentivized recruitment have not completed the thirty-sixth year of age, it also applies to employers who hire workers with an apprenticeship contract. The rate of calculation of pension benefits remains valid. The exemption is granted for a maximum period of forty-eight months to private employers who recruit from a headquarters or production unit located in the following regions: Abruzzo, Molise, Campania, Basilicata, Sicily, Puglia, Calabria and Sardinia. The exemption from contributions is due to employers who have not proceeded in the six months preceding the recruitment, nor in the nine months following the same, to individual dismissals for justified objective reasons or to collective dismissals, against workers classified with the same qualification in the same production unit. In formulating this rule, the Government is aware of the possibility of incurring the ban on state aid to businesses. Therefore the effectiveness of these provisions is subject to the authorization of the European Commission.
Many initiatives concern self-employment, female entrepreneurship and other forms of innovative activities. The introduction of the "self-employment-start-up" visa with the aim of attracting foreign talents to Italy in order to encourage the start-up of new investments in our country, through quotas, deserves some interest – considering the delicacy of the matter. dedicated of the Flows Decree to "foreign citizens [who intend to set up] innovative start-up" companies in the presence of the requisites provided for by law and in favor of which an independent employment relationship with the company is attributable ".
The possibility is confirmed, for companies that cease their activity, to access, if the required conditions are met, a Cigs intervention aimed at managing redundancies, for a maximum of 12 months. The discipline regarding the conditions and conditions for access to the intervention of the extraordinary wage supplement for cessation of activity remains unchanged. The text also provides for a rule regarding fixed-term contracts which, as a consequence of the epidemiological emergency from Covid-19, allows for renewal or extension until 31 March 2021, for a maximum period of 12 months and for one time only. , fixed-term subordinate employment contracts also in derogation from the provisions on the maximum number of extensions and the maximum duration of 36 months.
A provision is envisaged that allocates new resources aimed at completing employment recovery plans in the areas of complex industrial crisis governed, destined for the treatment of Cigs and mobility in derogation in the year 2021. The allocated resources are increased for the years 2021 and 2022 to the integration of the quota foreseen for the training courses aimed at apprenticeship for the professional qualification and diploma, the upper secondary education diploma and the higher technical specialization certificate and the training courses aimed at school-work alternation.
News also for the social Ape which is expected to be extended until 31 December 2021. In particular, those who have not benefited from unemployment benefit due to lack of insurance and contribution requirements will also be eligible for the allowance. The extension of the Woman Option is also envisaged for women workers who meet the personal and social security requirements by 31 December 2020.
The period provided with a part-time employment contract will be considered fully useful for the purposes of acquiring the right to a pension, within the limits established by the application of the minimum wage provided by law. In particular, the law provides that the number of weeks to be taken for retirement purposes is determined by comparing the total annual contribution to the aforementioned minimum contribution. It should be noted that for civil servants it is already provided that "for the purposes of acquiring the right to a pension from the administration concerned and the right to the end-of-service allowance, the short-time years of service are to be considered fully useful ".
The sentence of the Constitutional Court n. 234 of 2020, reducing the scope of application of pension reductions whose amounts exceed € 130,000 (so-called golden pensions) from five years to three years and extending the provisions on automatic equalization of pension treatments introduced by the law of budget 2020.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/riforma-pensioni-tutti-i-rimandi-del-governo/ on Sun, 22 Nov 2020 07:26:06 +0000.