Some reflections on the theme of work, in view of the National Democratic Party May 21 to 22.
Italy is a democratic republic, founded on work. So begins the most important document of the Italian republic, our Constitution.
These words are the cornerstone upon which a vision of society that places the work in the middle of building a democratic republic.
The work is not intended here only as a means of personal enrichment, but as an ontological basis of the state and collective welfare.
The Constitution recognizes, maintain and direct the value, and in particular:
• The economic value (the work intended as a means of satisfaction of human needs) in the articles. 35 to 40;
• The social value (the work intended as a framework within which to contribute to the common good and gain social recognition) in Article 4 which stipulates the right and duty to work;
• The personal value (defined as space for the development of individual talent and personal fulfillment) more choices in Article 4 which protects the worker and his elevation and professional training.
E 'through the work that may constitute the social contract between state and citizens, and social welfare becomes a direct consequence of the interaction between good governance and economic development of the whole country.
The work of the constitution is seen as an instrument for the realization of the personality, and this implies that it is due to every citizen to be guaranteed equal opportunities for achievement based on their abilities and not because of social positions acquired without merit, thus constituting a privilege.
This work takes the form of a right of all citizens a right to give effect to promote conditions. But work is also a duty that every citizen has a duty to "perform according to their ability and individual choice, activity or function that contributes to the material or spiritual progress of society" (Article 4).
The work thus has a dual significance, individual and collective, and the relationship between these two dimensions that characterize the company: the individual realizes his size through civic work, which becomes a means of empowerment and social development made possible by removal of those constraints (of wealth, social class, caste) that deny equal opportunities to all citizens.
Today we witness a loss of work ethic that is no longer a factor of identity and socialization, but a time fraught with difficulties and uncertainties where we often feel alone in facing the increasingly rapid and convulsive change imposed by the economic system called "globalization."
The problem is then to find that way and rediscover the value of the commitment that the work is again a primary source of growth for the people, a positive dimension that produces individual wealth and to build a new social participation and promote a true experience active citizenship.
must understand how to return to work, and workers, the centrality of global finance has taken from their confinement, apparently, increasingly marginal role in giving the scene to the speculative stock market rather than the results of industrial policies.
The relocation of production "basic" has certainly played a key role weight loss in this economy work, and today we speak of China as the new "world factory".
necessary today more than ever to rethink the role of socio-economic importance in Italy and Europe, and this should be done keeping in mind the kind of society we want to live. This requires clear political decisions and effective actions that can achieve them.
not surprising that the theme of the work is "the" word that is imposed on all others, and Bersani rightly states that "work is a collective theme as in past years had become a home made".
E 'precisely Starting from this observation that should be in action worked out for "bind social issues and democracy," as says the Secretary, and rebuilding the social fabric of the plot become so frayed and worn by years of rhetoric made liberal and individualistic.
Censis, its latest annual report on the social situation of the country, record "The downward cycle of individualism do it yourself", while making its way a new way of joint action between public, private and individuals, which refers to a CD as they have more space solutions and immediate as possible.
In this new perspective, the PD has big spaces in front of him and paths that are interpreted to give concrete answers to the questions of the company's future.
not let our guard down on workers' rights
The recent attacks on art. 18 show that the right to continue to pursue a marked deregulation of the labor market. After the elimination of measures in white on the resignation, the exceptions to the rules and the weakening of sanctions on workplace safety, the removal of limits on futures contracts, the re-insertion of the call contracts, cancellation of joint liability of 'sub-contractor with the contractor to curb illegal employment, we tried again to dismantle the protections against unfair dismissals.
Using an effective expression of Stefano Fassina, "the Minister Sacconi, rights and remuneration of employees is the variable compensation of the inefficiencies of the system and the corporate income accurately defenses. Despite attempts to
reformist rhetoric, is a design that looks to the distant past for a labor market wild, without rights, diametrically opposed to what could push our production activities to the competition of quality. "
The contract Work: Rights for All, for anyone precarious
Undoubtedly the excessive segmentation of the labor market, which sees a plethora of types of contracts, is an anomaly that created and creates entirely unjustified unequal treatment between workers who also perform similar tasks. Those forms of work that needed to be "flexible", justified on purely temporal and seasonal, have become forms of precarious stability, thanks to the recurrence of contracts that take place for months and years without ever becoming permanent contracts. The result is the abnormal growth of "atypical" contracts that have strongly biased the Italian labor market and weakened the social security system.
seems clear that the ratio of permanent employment that must be represented, as well as established by the Union itself European Union, the "normal" form of employment. So you have to reduce the same, the forms of flexible working back to the principles introduced by the Prodi government with the Protocol of July 2007: cancellation of the leasing staff, demarcation of the use of on-call work and the specific causal-term contracts.
Flexible working should also cost a lot more stable employment and flexible work that is stable should be able to count on strong incentives, in contrast to what happens today in Italy the work costs more "stable" than the precarious and flexibility to pay workers, not companies who use them.
latter, in particular, could be the key to discourage companies to recruit more precarious forms when that point to the flexibility not to have to stabilize the workers. As a service "unit" is a benefit paid more "stable" (think of the cost of a subscription over the cost of a single purchase) so it should be for the flexibility and should be properly remunerated by compensating the employee with a payment time of at least double or triple the amount paid to the worker "stable".
This mechanism, rather than a lowering down of the safeguards, could help lessen the appeal of the companies in precarious forms of employment.
Italy is a democratic republic, founded on work. So begins the most important document of the Italian republic, our Constitution.
These words are the cornerstone upon which a vision of society that places the work in the middle of building a democratic republic.
The work is not intended here only as a means of personal enrichment, but as an ontological basis of the state and collective welfare.
The Constitution recognizes, maintain and direct the value, and in particular:
• The economic value (the work intended as a means of satisfaction of human needs) in the articles. 35 to 40;
• The social value (the work intended as a framework within which to contribute to the common good and gain social recognition) in Article 4 which stipulates the right and duty to work;
• The personal value (defined as space for the development of individual talent and personal fulfillment) more choices in Article 4 which protects the worker and his elevation and professional training.
E 'through the work that may constitute the social contract between state and citizens, and social welfare becomes a direct consequence of the interaction between good governance and economic development of the whole country.
The work of the constitution is seen as an instrument for the realization of the personality, and this implies that it is due to every citizen to be guaranteed equal opportunities for achievement based on their abilities and not because of social positions acquired without merit, thus constituting a privilege.
This work takes the form of a right of all citizens a right to give effect to promote conditions. But work is also a duty that every citizen has a duty to "perform according to their ability and individual choice, activity or function that contributes to the material or spiritual progress of society" (Article 4).
The work thus has a dual significance, individual and collective, and the relationship between these two dimensions that characterize the company: the individual realizes his size through civic work, which becomes a means of empowerment and social development made possible by removal of those constraints (of wealth, social class, caste) that deny equal opportunities to all citizens.
Today we witness a loss of work ethic that is no longer a factor of identity and socialization, but a time fraught with difficulties and uncertainties where we often feel alone in facing the increasingly rapid and convulsive change imposed by the economic system called "globalization."
The problem is then to find that way and rediscover the value of the commitment that the work is again a primary source of growth for the people, a positive dimension that produces individual wealth and to build a new social participation and promote a true experience active citizenship.
must understand how to return to work, and workers, the centrality of global finance has taken from their confinement, apparently, increasingly marginal role in giving the scene to the speculative stock market rather than the results of industrial policies.
The relocation of production "basic" has certainly played a key role weight loss in this economy work, and today we speak of China as the new "world factory".
necessary today more than ever to rethink the role of socio-economic importance in Italy and Europe, and this should be done keeping in mind the kind of society we want to live. This requires clear political decisions and effective actions that can achieve them.
not surprising that the theme of the work is "the" word that is imposed on all others, and Bersani rightly states that "work is a collective theme as in past years had become a home made".
E 'precisely Starting from this observation that should be in action worked out for "bind social issues and democracy," as says the Secretary, and rebuilding the social fabric of the plot become so frayed and worn by years of rhetoric made liberal and individualistic.
Censis, its latest annual report on the social situation of the country, record "The downward cycle of individualism do it yourself", while making its way a new way of joint action between public, private and individuals, which refers to a CD as they have more space solutions and immediate as possible.
In this new perspective, the PD has big spaces in front of him and paths that are interpreted to give concrete answers to the questions of the company's future.
not let our guard down on workers' rights
The recent attacks on art. 18 show that the right to continue to pursue a marked deregulation of the labor market. After the elimination of measures in white on the resignation, the exceptions to the rules and the weakening of sanctions on workplace safety, the removal of limits on futures contracts, the re-insertion of the call contracts, cancellation of joint liability of 'sub-contractor with the contractor to curb illegal employment, we tried again to dismantle the protections against unfair dismissals.
Using an effective expression of Stefano Fassina, "the Minister Sacconi, rights and remuneration of employees is the variable compensation of the inefficiencies of the system and the corporate income accurately defenses. Despite attempts to
reformist rhetoric, is a design that looks to the distant past for a labor market wild, without rights, diametrically opposed to what could push our production activities to the competition of quality. "
The contract Work: Rights for All, for anyone precarious
Undoubtedly the excessive segmentation of the labor market, which sees a plethora of types of contracts, is an anomaly that created and creates entirely unjustified unequal treatment between workers who also perform similar tasks. Those forms of work that needed to be "flexible", justified on purely temporal and seasonal, have become forms of precarious stability, thanks to the recurrence of contracts that take place for months and years without ever becoming permanent contracts. The result is the abnormal growth of "atypical" contracts that have strongly biased the Italian labor market and weakened the social security system.
seems clear that the ratio of permanent employment that must be represented, as well as established by the Union itself European Union, the "normal" form of employment. So you have to reduce the same, the forms of flexible working back to the principles introduced by the Prodi government with the Protocol of July 2007: cancellation of the leasing staff, demarcation of the use of on-call work and the specific causal-term contracts.
Flexible working should also cost a lot more stable employment and flexible work that is stable should be able to count on strong incentives, in contrast to what happens today in Italy the work costs more "stable" than the precarious and flexibility to pay workers, not companies who use them.
latter, in particular, could be the key to discourage companies to recruit more precarious forms when that point to the flexibility not to have to stabilize the workers. As a service "unit" is a benefit paid more "stable" (think of the cost of a subscription over the cost of a single purchase) so it should be for the flexibility and should be properly remunerated by compensating the employee with a payment time of at least double or triple the amount paid to the worker "stable".
This mechanism, rather than a lowering down of the safeguards, could help lessen the appeal of the companies in precarious forms of employment.
