The mess of layoffs and the “hostage” workers of companies
The intervention of Giovanni Assi, national councilor of Unimpresa
The right hand does not know what the left hand is doing. According to the prevailing orientation – and therefore to the provisions of the support decree (DL 41/2021), according to which the blocking of layoffs ended on 30 June 2021, a deadline waived on 31 October 2021, for a limited type of at that time it will not be able to initiate dismissal procedures – the workers will be "hostages" of the companies and this also according to what is specified by the National Labor Inspectorate which with note 5.186 of 16 July 2021 notes that the ban is triggered regardless of actual use wage integration tools. The ban therefore remains well beyond the number of weeks of layoffs authorized by INPS and used by the company. Specifically, analyzing only the redundancy fund in derogation, in the rosiest of expectations, the weeks of the Cigd will end on 10 October. Where companies had originally divided the periods of CIGD to be requested and then repented, the deadline could be brought forward to 3 October.
So, starting from 4 or 11 October, what will companies and workers do? They will have to wait other weeks before being notified of a dismissal to be able to access, for example, Naspi and until then who will pay their salary? The days that separate us from October 31st will be considered unpaid absences (with also social security damage for the workers themselves) or once again it will be the companies that will have to put their hand to the portfolio by loading the salary and contribution burden, and mind you this time we are not talking about a few days but almost a full salary. Will companies "hold workers hostage" rather than granting them access to Naspi immediately? Will companies be waiting for an extension of the CIGD until 31 December? Why was the redundancy fund not simply provided for an equal period of time when a term of prohibition on dismissal was established, granting instead the redundancy fund for full coverage?
There is still no answer to these questions, but by now we are used to them. It is a film that has already been seen and reviewed in the last two long years in which, in addition to the pandemic, companies and workers have had to suffer damage deriving from the "non-harmony" between the different successive measures. Waiting for answers, we ask whoever is responsible for an immediate and clarifying intervention on the subject.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/il-pasticcio-della-cassa-integrazione-e-i-lavoratori-ostaggi-delle-aziende/ on Sat, 02 Oct 2021 06:41:18 +0000.