(Finance) – Contains a important news for a part of the ATA school staff the Cohesion decree which became State law no. 95 on 4 July last: this is theexpected amendmentsuggested by theAnief and presented by Senator Ella Bucalo (FdI), which provides for the recognition of the period from 16 April to the date of actual signing of the contract for school collaborators hired to meet the needs of the PNRR and Agenda Sud: “for the sole purposes of participation in tenders for the establishment of the provincial rankings of the professional profiles of the former areas A and B of the ATA staff for the 2024/2025 school year, the period between 16 April 2024 and the actual stipulation of the contracts for temporary assignments of auxiliary staff should also be taken into account”, reads the approved amendment.
Following the law approved last week, the Ministry of Education and Merit has now produced a Circular on how to proceed to actually see that recognized period of no contract. Indications: the Circular – produced by the Department for the Education and Training System – General Directorate for School Personnel of the Mim – contains precise indications for general directors on the decision to reopen and review the scores assigned to temporary staff interested in hiring for the 2024/2025 school year.
“In publishing the above notice, these Directorates will wish to indicate the dates from 12 to 17 July 2024 as the time window within which candidates may submit their participation requests”, it is stated in the circular from the Ministry. Only for Agenda Sud and PNRR workers, whose contract expired on April 15 and was reactivated in early May, the ministerial circular continues, “it is recommended to acquire and evaluate the requests referred to in point 1) no later than July 24, the deadline from which the IT functions will no longer be available. That said, as regards the second type of candidates, the integration of the requests of those who have already submitted an application to participate in the selection and who can now also include the service referred to in the regulatory provision indicated in order to obtain a higher score, as already anticipated at the beginning, will take place through a procedure that will be developed by the information system, available from July 24: at the end of the procedure, the Offices will be informed of the updates carried out through the territorial support service to proceed with the checks and controls”.
The Ministry therefore gives the possibility of insert the period between April 16th and early May to the staff who for a few days was unable to reach the 24-month requirement or was unable to enter that period of time, not reaching the additional score that would otherwise have been obtained. Finally, it is worth remembering that the new ‘window’ concerns exclusively “the Competitions for qualifications for the updating and integration of the rankings for access to the provincial roles of the professional profiles of the former areas A and B of ATA personnel pursuant to article 554 of legislative decree no. 297/1994 and ministerial ordinance 23 February 2009, no. 21”: law no. 95 of 4 July only mentions such workers (“temporary assignments of auxiliary personnel”) and only the first ATA band (“calls for the creation of the provincial rankings”).
Marcello Pacifico, national president of Anief, remember that “the reopening of the so-called ’24 month’ rankings, concerning exclusively a type of precarious ATA, represents for us and for the many workers involved an important achievement of the objective: the decision in fact arose from an Anief proposal, brought forward with a specific amendment presented by Senator Ella Bucalo, starting from the request, then obtained, of extension until June 30, 2024,of the Pnrr Ata contracts stipulated since April 16, after they had been interrupted, due to lack of funds, on April 15. Our continuous and motivated requests have once again brought concrete results”, concludes the independent trade unionist.