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ROME More than half a million workers have not received their redundancy money for months. More than 150,000 are waiting from the INPS to pay one or more salary supplements for Covid-19. But then there are about 400 thousand employees of the artisan companies, who, nevertheless, take the money from the layoffs of the alternative bilateral solidarity fund for handicrafts, dry since May: in their case it is necessary that the payments start again when the 375 millions. that the government has allocated to the fund with the August decree. Meanwhile, the hours of layoffs authorized by the INPS in the first eight months of the year exceeded 3 billion, an increase of one thousand percent compared to the whole of 2019.
The majority of the requests are related to the health emergency, with around 2.8 billion hours reserved and authorized between April and August, of which almost half, 42 percent, were used by companies to drop off employees in House. . Regarding the treatments managed by the National Institute of Social Security, according to the latest data updated to September 7, there are still 23,000 employees waiting for the month of March, 33,000 for April, more than 121,000 waiting for the money from the Dismissal Fund in May , the June supplement must be paid at 136 thousand, the July supplement at 77 thousand and about five thousand in August.
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In short, the INPS is behind in the payment of 398 thousand salary supplements for Covid-19. Taking into account that a worker often waits several months, it can be estimated that the people involved are at least 150,000. Nearly thirty thousand workers, on the other hand, have not yet obtained even one of the monthly payments owed to them. On the other hand, from the National Confederation of Handicrafts, they announced that the alternative bilateral solidarity fund for handicrafts, which like the temporary fund is not administered by the INPS, stopped providing salary supplements to Covid-19 in May: ” The August decree has allocated an additional 375 million to restart the fund but that money has not yet arrived ”. Just yesterday afternoon the Ministry of Labor announced the registration by the Court of Accounts of the benefit and that of temporary workers, which amounts to 125 million. At this point, Cna’s hope is that the payments will be released in October.
Tourism and catering workers are among the hardest hit by the delays. “As for bars and restaurants, there are 16,000 workers who have requested access to the buffers and are waiting to be paid. At six hundred thousand workers, the redundancy fund was anticipated by the companies that, however, in many cases have not yet retaliated against the public coffers. In addition, for 40,000 small businesses that have not reopened after the closure and therefore have had to make full use of the redundancy fund, not even the 18-week extension granted by the August decree will be sufficient, since in mid-August November will be sold out ”, he explains. Messaggero Roberto Calugi, general director of Fipe-Confcommercio, the Italian Federation of Public Companies. Short of oxygen, therefore, thousands of entrepreneurs who have advanced payments to their employees and who now have to face the tax periods frozen during the health emergency, without having recovered in the meantime the possession of the excess money to leave the worker.
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Thus, the president of the Italian Federation of Travel and Tourism Associations, Fiavet, Ivana Jelinic: «It was not easy for companies in the tourism sector to obtain layoffs for their employees. Not everyone has arrived. We have collided with different regulations at the regional level and thus a support element such as the redundancy fund has lost strength due to the bureaucracy.
A further eighteen weeks of layoffs were introduced in August for the period from July 13 to the end of the year. Then we will turn the page. The Minister of Economy, Roberto Gualtieri, has already ruled out that there will be a generalized and free layoff fund for all in 2021. The plan in via XX Settembre foresees adding some specific support elements to a standard fund to support the sectors most in difficulty.
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