(Finance) – Today, September 23rd, the meeting took place the meeting between the trade unions and the Ministry of Education and Merit on the ministerial decree relating to cessations from September 1, 2025 and on the accompanying circular. The Administration has made known the roadmap starting from applications that must be submitted by October 21, 2024in order to have the certification from INPS by 22 April 2025. This date was also set to allow for mobility operations.
The delegation Anief – composed of the Secretary General John Portuesi and by the national manager of the Condir-ANIEF department Alberico Sorrentino – reiterated its opposition to the use of the Passweb application and to the management by the secretariats of pension practices for school employees. The overload of administrative obligations placed on the school secretariats in fact does not allow compliance with the processing times of the practices, thus generating the penalties for recourse interests that the schools are forced to pay. Furthermore, there is a risk of undermining the very certainty for workers of how and when they will retire.
“We demand from the Administration the respect of the commitments made at the meeting of 22 April last – declared the head of the Condir-ANIEF Department Alberico Sorrentino – in which we had been presented with a experimental project which would have made passweb disappear from schools, today we are back to square one. By express regulatory provision (See CM n. 88 of 9/12/2004-CM n. 96 of 15/12/2009-Note ex Inpdap n. 22 of 9/9/2008-Note prot. n. 2588 of 23/12/2013) the practices of termination of service, retirement benefits, severance pay, liquidation and redemption must be managed by the territorial offices of the USR”.
ANIEF has therefore asked for a decisive intervention to return to a management of practices by INPS which cannot offload the obligations onto schools, which are now structurally understaffed and whose staff have not received the necessary training to process these practices.
“Stop harassing DSGA and Administrative Assistants of schools – declared the general secretary John Portuesi – we represent school workers and we know what the conditions of the secretariats are: not only staff shortages, but also the precariousness of many secretarial workers who are required to have increasingly higher skills without adequate training. In the absence of adequate remedies, we are also ready to challenge the circular on terminations, to protect all secretarial workers and personnel who are entitled to a well-deserved pension”, concluded Giovanni Portuesi. “The pensions theme has always been at the union’s attention”, declared the national president of Anief.
Second Marcello Pacifico “low wages at working age, the delay in accessing work due to the lack of a permanent recruitment channel, the delay in contract renewals as well as the criteria for the contributory and legal maturation of working years and the lack of free redemption of university years lead the school sector to have not only the lowest salaries of all public employees, but also increasingly older and increasingly poorer pensioners. The Government and Parliament are called upon to take into account the specificities of the school sector”.