The possibility of setting up a fund at INPS for the management of redundancies in the chemical/pharmaceutical sector is certainly interesting news.
Shortly after the entry into force of the "Fornero reform", which did not only concern the raising of the retirement age, but also the simultaneous reduction of the amount and duration of the social shock absorbers (elimination of the redundancy allowance and introduction della Naspi), the need to study and put in place a "structure" that could manage the inevitable critical issues that would have arisen, should the companies find themselves in the need to reorganize and/or reconvert, has become unavoidable.
A similar fund has already been present in our country for seventeen years, the so-called "Redemption Fund" in the credit sector, which allows for people to leave the world of work up to seven years before reaching the pension requirements.
My excellent colleague Giammei rightly wonders who should finance all this. Well, in the above banking sector this solidarity fund is fully charged as well 
directly from companies.
Part of this contribution is paid by the worker, in the same way that Fonchim is financed in our sector.
In essence, the State comes to support the worker with Naspi but, if the companies should have further needs for flexibility, I find it correct that they themselves take on the additional burdens, without downloading the costs on the community, on the Pantalone state.
There would be a lot to say about the role of the Union, which I believe is a "necessary evil" today and which I would like (yes, I have some hope) to go back to its origins, to rediscover the founding reasons for its existence.
But that's a whole other story…
Francesca Boni
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