A voucher with a maximum value of 2,000 euros for training (or retraining) courses; and a contribution of one million euros from the Ministry of Labour, until the end of 2014, to support workers in their reintegration processes. And the results?
Positives. Persons belonging to «welfare» are, to date, 703, coming from 20 companies in the pharmaceutical sector in crisis. Of these, the 38% (equal to approximately 270 workers) were relocated.
An audience destined to grow, given that with the latest agreements (send registration) the members of Welfarma have risen to about a thousand units.
Today in Rome, in the presence of Minister Enrico Giovannini and the CEO of Confindustria, Marcella Panucci, Farmindustria and Italia Lavoro will take stock of «Welfarma», the innovative project, born in 2008, which sees the public and private together in crisis management companies in the pharmaceutical sector.
A tool inspired by «the principle of corporate social responsibility which represents a value for the sector», underlines the president of Farmindustria, Massimo Scaccabarozzi.
Welfarma also involves trade unions and employment agencies; and the model could be extended to other productive sectors in crisis given the central role of the active policy instruments envisaged (and thus rebalancing public spending on labour: out of 27 billion, as many as 21 are destined for passive policies).
The use of Welfarma is included in the agreement for the concession of the shock absorber, "so that the active policy is implemented at the same time as the granting of the subsidy", explains the president of ItaliaLavoro, Paolo Reboani.
Furthermore, businesses contribute directly to the management of active policies. The public contribution is a voucher of up to 2,000 euros. The voucher can be used to choose the most suitable training path for reintegration.
But it can also serve as reimbursement of expenses (travel and food) to participate.
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Public-private synergy: so far 703 employees from 20 companies in crisis have joined and the 38% has been relocated
29 October 2013 – Claudio Tucci – Il Sole24ORE
Ed.: Italy Work is a joint-stock company wholly owned by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. It operates, by law, as an instrumental body of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies for the promotion and management of actions in the field of labour, employment and social inclusion policies. The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer is Paolo Emilio Reboani.
The “Welfarma” project was born from the agreement between Filcem-Cgil, Femca-Cisl, Uilcem-Uil and Farmaindustria signed on 20 November 2008. This includes a series of "welfare to work" measures to facilitate, retrain and seek to redeploy redundancies in the pharmaceutical sector. This project has as its recipients, in particular, the professional figures of drug sales representatives (ISF) and, more generally, all employees of pharmaceutical companies that foresee restructurings and redundancies. The president of Farmindustria at the time, Sergio Dompè, predicted that “by the end of 2008, there would have been 2,500 redundancies with estimates that would have led to a balance of 10,000 fewer workers at the end of 2010”. "Obviously" the project, born from Farmindustria, Trade Unions and the Ministry of Labour, is aimed above all at Scientific Representatives who, however, have not even been consulted. The Welfarma case and the debate that ensued, involving actors directly interested but excluded from the bargaining process, once again underline the problem of union representation and representation, both at national and company level.
In retrospect we can say that the redundant ISFs were around 13.400 and Welfarma relocated as many as 270 (equal to 2.01%). Truly an amazing result! Truly an opportunity (… but for whom?).
