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March 12, 2021Cassa integration until June for everyone and until October for small businesses that currently do not have the protection of the ordinary cig. The Minister of Labor Andrea Orlando said in an interview with Rai Radio1 as stated in a note released by the broadcaster.
The minister explained that the cig for workers who do not have the ordinary cig will end when the social safety nets are extended to everyone: a job that the ministry carries out with the social partners and plans to complete by October. "No one will be left alone but accompanied in the loss of a job to a new one," he said.
On the revision of the Citizenship Income, Orlando, while acknowledging that it has made the pandemic social crisis less serious, stated that "the elements that have created distortions must be reviewed as well as fighting those who are not entitled to receive it".
"The audience must be extended to situations that are not currently protected", added the minister.
"Inclusive" ecological
transition The transition is "inclusive", first and foremost "from the social point of view" and for this reason there is a reflection on how "to rethink the social safety nets and the tools of active labor policies as a function of the transition. ".
The minister said this in a passage of his speech by videoconference at the presentation of the master on ecological transition of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
"I say this as the holder of a department that will have to accompany, I believe, the transformation processes. We are reflecting for example now, and we will soon talk again with the competent ministers, starting with Minister Cingolani, of the need to rethink social safety nets and tools of active labor policies in function of the transition. Because it is quite clear that the transition is either an evolution of human capital, of work or risks failure ".
Transition requires participation
The ecological transition "must deeply involve the human factor: it is not simply a change of things, a transition from one physical structure to another. It also imposes a transformation and an ability to involve people, women and of men. So knowledge, but also participation, and fairness ", said Minister Orlando.
"Because if the transformation is not shared and equitable - underlines the minister - the risk is that there will be reactions of a social nature against, which hinder, parts of society that somehow do not see any individual perspective within a collective promise".
For Orlando, a "resistance" must be fought, a "subtle opposition" that tends to "diminish, deform, make this path and this process less desirable".
Here knowledge comes into play, to create the awareness that "we are not talking, as we often try to pass, about a process that brings backwards. To maintain a standard of living like the one we have achieved, an average age like what we have achieved, widespread well-being but using fewer resources, we need more technology, more innovation, more knowledge ".
Transition also involves SMEs
The ecological transition is inclusive not only in terms of social policies, but also "from the point of view of the ability to keep the entire production system within", the big ones who make the vanguard like the little ones, added Orlando.
"The transition is often described as a series of excellences - explains Orlando - of companies that are far ahead on the technological frontier" and that "show the way".
This "is very right", he stresses, "because there is no process that can take place without some avant-garde. Then, however, the problem is also that of knowing how to keep the rear guard inside".
The focus, Orlando points out, can no longer be solely on the "green economy": "I believe that in the next few years we will have to deal a lot with the 'brown economy', which still persists, and how it is given the tools to create an evolution ".
Looking at the Italian panorama, "in a highly fragmented production system, made up of small businesses, often family-run, the transition is not necessarily easier than in other countries. And from this point of view we must think of an Italian way 'to the transition ".
It should be borne in mind that "a production structure in which it has perhaps been said for too long that the small was beautiful will have more difficulties than other countries in dealing with these steps", said the minister.
"Having put together the delegations to environment, energy, having built an inter-ministerial committee that deals with the transition" is for Orlando a "right approach that must try to coordinate and involve even the smallest company".
Even the little ones, he concludes, must be made "the subject of this transformation. It is the great challenge we face today".
Transition requires change in finance and governance
The ecological transition process requires a rethinking of finance and governance, said the minister of labor.
"Changing finance is one of the essential tools - says Orlando - we think how much instruments that imposed short-term returns have affected the model, and how much more patient capital is needed to think about transition processes.
The distortion of the current model is also the consequence of a certain idea of finance which imposed very short-term returns and which therefore also imposed a very predatory productive dimension with respect to resources.
I believe that the fact that finance changes is an element of great importance ". Then" the transition also requires a rethinking of governance "," our governance is unable to take into account some phenomena that are supranational, but also only supraregional ".