Dear Colleagues and Colleagues,
I am sending you some of my considerations after the CGIL strike of 6 September last to challenge the financial manoeuvre, and after its approval.
In parallel to other comments my thought is addressed specifically in article 8 of the decree on the financial maneuver, in this regard I fully subscribe to what Luciano Gallino wrote in the newspaper "La Repubblica" of 15 September (piece published on the aiisf.it site).
He came to the dry conclusion that "the wording of article 8 leaves no doubts: it aims to establish by law that it is really possible to derogate, not from any but from all the laws that have so far regulated matters in the field of work. These laws include not only the Workers' Statute of 1970, the Treu package of 1997, law 30 of 2003 with the subsequent implementing decree, but also the hundreds of legislative provisions introduced from the 1960s onwards. In addition to ignoring articles 3 and 39 of the Constitution.
The major risk inherent in Article 8, which is crucial for workers, is that it facilitates “unjust cause” dismissals, effectively rendering Article 18 of the Workers' Statute ineffective.
However, other parts of the same article 8 suggest a serious deterioration in the working conditions of anyone who has or wants to be employed by a company.
In the event that article 8 becomes law, workers' associations representing national or local level can sign "specific agreements" with the company in which they are employed or with which they are negotiating their employment which may derogate from the National Agreement, the Workers' Statute, other laws on work, the Constitution”.
The “specific understandings” provided for by article 8 concern fields such as for example the control over work, working hours, the modalities of the employment relationship, including collaborations.
These fields are fundamental for all workers, and if you see well, even more so for the ISF category.
