Will Brunetta make remote work impossible for state employees?
What do the guidelines of the Ministry of Public Administration on remote working contain? The words of Minister Brunetta. The positions of the trade unions. And the questions about the real applicability of some measures.
The public administration that wants to do smart working must guarantee "the invariance of the services provided to users" but also "an adequate rotation of the personnel authorized to provide agile work, while ensuring the prevalence for each worker of work in presence" . This can be read in the guidelines presented yesterday by the Minister of Public Administration Renato Brunetta to the trade unions. Furthermore, one cannot therefore do agile work five days a week but must alternate it with work in the office.
The main novelty under discussion – stresses Il Sole 24 Ore – "is above all the request that administrations guarantee equipment and connection (in terms of safety, not monthly bills) to workers in Smart Working". "The worker must be provided with all the technological equipment necessary to work off-site and will not have to use personal utilities and mobile phones, but will be provided with a special application to work remotely ", summarized Corriere della Sera . An expense and a lot of work for the employer truly remarkable public: for this reason, among some state managers it is rumored that this is an indirect way to make it difficult to resort to remote work in the Public Administration; we will see.
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NO TO THE HOME INTERNET LINE
In smart working activities, public employees will not be able to use their home internet network for service. This is another aspect that emerges from the guidelines on agile work presented yesterday to the unions by the Minister of Public Administration Renato Brunetta. “The worker must be provided – we read – with suitable technological equipment. Only the internet connection provided by the employer can be used to access the applications of one's own institution ”.
REMOTE WORK, HOW TO DO IT
Therefore, "the adoption of appropriate technological tools suitable for guaranteeing the absolute confidentiality of the data and information processed during the performance of agile work" must be ensured. "In no case – it says – can a personal or domestic user of the employee be used for ordinary service activities".
11-HOUR DISCONNECTION BAND
Even the public worker in smart working will be entitled to a consecutive daily rest period of not less than 11 hours for the recovery of psychophysical energies as well as the contract for work in presence, clarify the guidelines presented today by the Minister of Public Administration, Renato Brunetta on the inoperability or disconnection range. The document reminds that the work performance in agile mode is carried out without a time constraint within the maximum daily and weekly working hours established by the CCNL.
WORKER'S RIGHTS
The worker can request, where the relevant conditions are met, the use of the hourly permits provided for by collective agreements or by law such as permits for particular personal or family reasons, trade union permits and those of law 104. On the days in which it is makes smart working – it is clarified "it is not possible to carry out overtime work, travel, disadvantaged work, work carried out in risky conditions".
WHAT HAPPENS IN CASE OF DIFFICULTY
In the event of problems of a technical and / or IT nature, and in any case of malfunctioning of the IT systems, if the performance of remote work is impeded or significantly slowed down, the employee is required to promptly inform his / her manager. . If these problems make work temporarily impossible or unsafe, the administration can call the employee to work in presence. For unexpected service needs, the employee in agile work can be called back to the office at least the day before. The return to service does not imply the right to recover the unused days of agile work.
THE WORDS OF MINISTER BRUNETTA
The guidelines, however, "will anticipate the contracts": "The confrontation with the trade unions – Minister Brunetta remarked yesterday – was necessary because pending the definition of the renewals and therefore the regulation of agile work, we think it is useful for the 32 thousand administrations Italian companies to be able to count on guidelines that anticipate what will be foreseen in the contracts ». The objective, the minister emphasizes, is to have, "from the end of January structured, regulated, contracted and organized out of the emergency agile work, which must fully fall within one of the ways of organizing work in the Public Administration".
THE SUMMARY OF THE CORRIERE DELLA SERA DAILY
Yes to smart working in public offices but with many stakes, summarizes the Corriere della Sera : "After the return decree of the Minister of Public Administration Renato Brunetta which set the return to office as the predominant way of working for public employees, the guidelines for the agile work of the 3 million and 200 thousand workers scattered in the 32 thousand public administrations of Italy arrive. Yesterday the minister presented them to the trade unions. They are a first step, a sort of general scheme, pending the definition of smart working in public employment as part of the ongoing discussion on the new national contract ".
WHAT THE UNIONS SAY
Minister Brunetta has made an appointment with the unions in two weeks for suggestions and changes. The unions say they are satisfied while not hiding some doubts. They call for greater bargaining on the subject, underlining the need for a shared agreement, so that the guidelines do not replace what will then be decided under the national contract. Ignazio Ganga of the CISL then calls for "more detailed and detailed guidelines", while Pierpaolo Bombardieri (Uil) underlines the importance "of a system for verifying the management of objectives by the management team". Meanwhile, next Tuesday there will be the next meeting at Aran on the contract.
Several unions – underlines the newspaper Repubblica – believe that the minister has "bypassed collective bargaining", as the general secretary of Confsal Raffaele Margiotta observes: "We note a strong regulation in a document that should contain only general principles". Criticism also shared by other unions, from Codirp to Cisal to Flp-Cse, which also observe how some rules, starting with that on the obligation to use devices and connection lines provided by the PA, make agile work impossible immediately , and therefore oblige everyone to return immediately to the office "in a phase in which, unfortunately, the pandemic emergency is still present". Even the CGIL, with the confederal secretary Tania Scacchetti, asks to "start a confrontation", to "avoid an ungoverned mass return". The ban on the use of personal computers, Rino DiMeglio (Gilda) then objects, constitutes an insurmountable obstacle to Dad: "It is pure fantasy to think that every teacher can be equipped with a computer by the school". drafting of the guidelines, which will take into account the observations that the unions will present in the next 15 days and will then discuss with the minister, explicitly excludes Dad, and the prohibition of using domestic users or their own devices is better specified: it refers to the "indispensable safety in 'access and communications', explain sources from the Public Administration.
THE QUESTION OF 11 WORKING
Even the 11 hours of disconnection have raised doubts: too few, there would be time only to have dinner and sleep. However, the positive aspects of the document are also recognized: Uil leader Pier Paolo Bombardieri appreciates "the overcoming of the logic of mere percentages" of smart working. And for the rest, suggests the CISL Confederal Secretary Ignazio Ganga, in these 15 days the federations will make a contribution to "come to shared guidelines that are better articulated than those presented".
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/brunetta-rendera-impossibile-il-lavoro-da-remoto-per-i-dipendenti-statali/ on Sat, 23 Oct 2021 09:35:15 +0000.