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February 27, 2021 This morning the meeting between the Minister of Labor, Andrea Orlando, the social partners and companies on the issue of social safety nets.

The meeting took place via videoconference with the participation, as well as Cgil Cisl, Uil and Ugl, of Confindustria and other entrepreneurial realities, from Confapi to Cna, from Confcommercio to Alleanza Coop, and was convened by the minister, specifies a note of the dicastery, "to submit for comparison an" open "document that defines the possible lines of intervention aimed at simplifying the procedures for activating and managing social safety nets".  



Orlando: we work for a universal shock absorber system and for a reform


"We need, on the one hand, to address and resolve the critical issues that have emerged in recent months and, on the other, to lay the foundations for creating a universal social protection system".

This is the approach for the reform of social safety nets that emerges from the document presented by Minister Andrea Orlando to the social partners.

It is then underlined that "it is necessary to create a strong interaction between the expansion of social protection and the strengthening of active policies". At the same time, "the activation of significant vertical and selective industrial policy actions based on investments of public resources" is needed. 



The Minister also entrusted his reflection to Facebook at the end of the meeting.



Today we held the first table with the social partners, after the meetings of recent days, to arrive at a ...

Published by Andrea Orlando on Saturday 27 February 2021



CGIL: positive start with Orlando 'important road map, fundamental review of shock absorbers


"Positive start of the discussion in the technical area proposed by the minister. Today's discussion focused on simplifying procedures and strengthening supervisory activities in 'use of shock absorbers ".

Thus the confederal secretary of the CGIL, Tania Scacchetti, at the end of the meeting.

"An important road map, the one that has been outlined for us, which is necessary to start as soon as possible because, pending the definition of still emergency measures such as the continuation of the covid fund and the blocking of layoffs, is fundamental - concludes the confederal secretary of the CGIL - review the entire system of social protections to respond to the renewed needs of citizens ".

"Some options are being evaluated - explains the union manager - such as the transition from sr41 to uniemens flow, greater centralization of the management of requests, the identification of tools that can facilitate the advance in favor of workers and improve, as always required from the CGIL, transparency and the possibility of verifying the progress of the practices. We will evaluate in detail the contents of the document that will be sent to us by the department ".

"The minister has also, - adds Scacchetti - expressed the will to define a calendar of meetings during which the various aspects of the reform of the shock absorbers will be addressed: scope of the instruments and related management methods, costs and distribution of financial weights" . 



Uil: positive starting from simplifications cig target payment of indemnities in a maximum of 40 days 


"It is undoubtedly positive that we have chosen to start from the need to speed up and simplify procedures, to ensure faster disbursement of indemnities, reducing late payments which, in recent months, have put millions of male and female workers in serious difficulty ", says the Uil confederal secretary, Ivana Veronese, at the end of the meeting with the Minister of Labor, Andrea Orlando, the first step of the table on the reform of social safety nets .

"The goal is to achieve, over the next few weeks, a fully centralized management of applications and the maximum automation of the investigation that allows the payment of indemnities in a maximum of 40 days".

"We share the approach both in the method and in the merits and we will continue to give our contribution to the discussion with the minister but - warns the trade unionist - issues of great social importance remain in the background that must be addressed as soon as possible, starting with the use of 32 billion of budget gap, defined more than two months ago and not yet committed due to the government crisis ".