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May 26, 2021 After the wake of controversy following the news that the blocking of layoffs will not be extended to August 28 - but will remain in force until June 30 - prompting many to talk about Confindustria's victory, Labor Minister Andrea Orlando returns to the argument to clarify some points. And he does so in an interview with Corriere della sera. "The dynamic that can guide a country in a pandemic is not the same as that of a country that leaves it. Either the majority forces put their flags back, or they put the political framework at risk - he underlines - And this mainly concerns the League, which is the one that waves the most flags. The standard was drawn up in a few hours in order to give companies more tools to mitigate the impact of the end of the redundancy block - continues the minister - The substance has remained,with incentives for companies to use layoffs until the end of the year without having to contribute to it. In return they undertake not to fire. The other rule, on who asks for Covid cash in June, was a consequent corollary ".
Many speak of a blitz, not talking about it in the Council of Ministers. "I didn't write it at the last minute in the corridors of Palazzo Chigi. That provision was sent by certified e-mail to the competent legislative offices two days earlier - Orlando says - In the Council I only referred to the text, as is done in these cases . And then I spoke about it openly at the press conference, alongside Mario Draghi. Do you think I would have done it if there had been a subterfuge? ". "As long as the pandemic was in its acute phase, we all or almost all agreed on the need for vaccination. Now we see that there is still a right and a left. Keeping these factors together will depend on everyone's ability not to wave flags and not miss the train. Recovery. But it is not a path that is done naturally,without politics ".
Castelli: "The government acted correctly"
The government acted "acted correctly in the published text (Sostegni bis decree), balancing the agreement" on the blocking of layoffs. The Deputy Minister of Economy Laura Castelli said on Radio 24. "The whole pandemic - he explained - has been handled step by step with agreements between the government and between companies and trade unions and in this case too this path and the final text have been made. it represents just that ". According to Castelli, it is necessary to "give companies the tools", the layoffs and the Covid Fund: "if you ask an entrepreneur to keep the staff, you have to give these measures: this is the balance of the agreement between the social categories" . "We always hear the social categories - he reiterated - and the most important choices like this linked to layoffs have always been made together and even in this case it was right to continue writing the rules as agreed ".
Today, in the meantime, the Labor Commission, regarding the fact-finding survey on the new inequalities produced by the pandemic in the world of work, is holding the hearings of the representatives of Confimi Industria and ConfimpreseItalia; Permanent unitary committee of professional orders and colleges (Cup), Confassociations, Coordination of free professional associations (Colap), Federagenti and Network of technical professions.
Unions: "We will not accept that there will be layoffs from 1 July"
Unions on a war footing. "We are not willing to accept that from 1 July there will be layoffs. On Friday we will go in front of Parliament and we will organize ourselves to continue the mobilization" attacks the leader of the CGIL. Maurizio Landini about the mediation implemented by the Sostegni bis decree.
"Bank of Italy, not union sources, says that the people who are certainly at risk are more than 500,000. The data we have speak of an audience of workers of two million. The range is between 500,000 and 2 million" he says in turn. the general secretary of Uil Pierpaolo Bombardieri to the microphones of Rai Radio 1 about the blocking of layoffs. "We think it is correct to give an answer to workers in order not to detonate a social 'bomb'", he added, underlining that he hopes to "leave no one behind".
"Confindustria made an attack with a straight leg, also very incorrect in terms and contents on a very delicate issue. In recent months we had met with Minister Orlando and each social party had expressed their positions, we also met Confindustria and the positions they were distant - says Bombardieri - Orlando's proposal did not completely satisfy us but did not satisfy Confindustria, which used the Sole24 ore and some other newspapers for a zero lift attack ".
From the Old: "Block prevents relocating"
Compact entrepreneurs have always said they are opposed to the extension of the redundancy block which, as Laura Dalla Vecchia, president of Confindustria Vicenza underlines, "must be reviewed because it is not okay to leave people who could be relocated to the Cig indefinitely, now that the manufacturing is restarting. ". "Last year there was Covid and therefore it was right to intervene in support of companies and workers, in defense of wages and people. The government has extended the free Covid fund several times, an extraordinary operation that has gone hand in hand with the blocking of layoffs - he adds - Once we have returned from the emergency, the block must be reviewed because otherwise we continue to leave people who could be relocated indefinitely, now that the economy is restarting a bitat a time. After the war we started working again, not staying still and using state funds ". Finally, for the number one of Confindustria Vicenza" the problem we have today is, if anything, the opposite, we have no manpower and there is a shortage of raw materials. There will be no social tsunami, "he concludes.