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From managing working hours to the right to disconnect, from health and safety to technological and non-technological means: smart work, an increasingly widespread method in the Covid era, is preparing for a new look. Unions are pushing for regulation through collective bargainingand not an eventual ad hoc law that guarantees full rights and protections to those who, maintaining the principle of “voluntary” membership, make use of it. And for that reason they argue the need to define an understanding between the government and the social partners, with a framework agreement, before the end of the state of emergency, scheduled for October 15, (except for further extensions), date from which the simplified procedure, and without the need for an individual agreement, will be closed.
The issue was at the center of the first meeting, “interlocutory but important”, as defined by the unions, with the Minister of Labor and Social Policies, Nunzia Catalfo. A meeting already planned in videoconference, with the minister who has been in preventive quarantine since yesterday, after having been – as the same ministry explained – in contact with a person who later tested positive for Covid; both tests he performed were negative. Instead, the table on the pension reform scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed.
Agile work is governed by law no. 81/2017, but throughout the duration of the state of emergency, as the Prime Minister’s Decree of March 1 stipulates, there is the possibility of working in smart working without the need for individual agreements between employer and worker, thus making use of the communication procedure simplified.
“Given the end of the emergency regime, we must reach a concerted understanding between the government, unions and companies to establish a strong mutual trust that will be implemented in the workplace through national, business and territorial negotiation”, says the CISL Undersecretary General. , Luigi Sbarra. And not through “an undifferentiated law that imposes maximum thresholds or exceptions that allow companies to operate unilaterally,” he says again, underlining that the minister “has opened himself to an approach that enhances the role of labor relations.”
It is “fundamental to better define” the rules of smart work and “restore the rules that were skipped with the emergency measures, starting with the right to an individual agreement or instrumental team in charge of the companies,” says the confederal secretary of CGIL, Tania Scacchetti. Uil is also focusing on this: the process will continue with a second meeting that will have to be convened “before October 18,” says Confederal Secretary Tiziana Bocchi. “We proposed to the minister to imagine, once the emergency period is over, an instrument, such as a protocol or an agreement, capable of giving great force to the negotiation.”
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