(Finance) – Historic agreement for a innovative national collective agreement for sport to be applied to hundreds of thousands of workers in the sports world, including employees and collaborators. The trade unions Slc Cgil, Fisascat Cisl and Uilcom they signed with the Italian Sports Confederation – Confcommercio Imprese for Italy an agreement that substantially renews and adapts existing bargaining to the recently introduced legal regulations. The signature at CONI, in the presence of President Giovanni Malagò.
Currently the contract has been applied for just over 7,000 employers with a total of approximately 41,000 employees. “This is – explains a joint note – thesingle employment contract currently used by businesses, companies or bodies in the sector, which involves sports centers engaged in every discipline, which involves profit and non-profit bodies, which will be applied to every form of work”.
Between the salient points of the agreementvalid for three years fromJanuary 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026: the elimination of the double contractual regime, in relation to those employed before and after 12/22/2015, the date of initial stipulation of the original National Collective Labor Agreement for Sports Facilities and Activities; the revision of the contractual frameworks, with the introduction into the classification systems of the professional figures envisaged by the reform attributable to coordinated and continuous sports collaboration contracts (athletes, coaches, instructors, technical directors, sports directors, athletic trainers and match directors); the increase in contractual minimums over 13 months; the regulation of flexibility in part-time work and seasonal work, with the establishment of employment relationships with fixed-term contracts for the sports season; the valorisation of bilateralism, with the application extension also to coordinated and continuous collaboration relationships; for the co.co.co. pregnancy, illness and accident do not lead to the termination of the contractual relationship, with the extension of the duration of the contract, equal to 180 days in the case of pregnancy.
News also for the economic aspect that provides for an increase of 200 euros for the fourth average level when fully operationalor, to be reset for all other levels, of which 100 euros have already been paid as an advance by virtue of a transition agreement signed between the parties in 2022. The remaining 100 euros will be paid in three tranches: 40 euros with the salary of the month of July 2024, 30 euros with the salary for the month of July 2025, 30 euros with the salary for the month of July 2026.
“Great news is the signing today at CONI of the Sport contract which safeguards wages, reorganizes and regulates flexible working relationships, extending important rights and protections to many athletes, coaches, instructors, technical directors, sports directors, athletic trainers and directors of the competition. A sign of great innovation and valorisation of the professionalism existing in the Italian sports movement. Congratulations to Fisascat CISL and the other unions”, writes the general secretary of the CISL on social media, Luigi Sbarra.
“The agreement on the national sports contract represents a sign of great innovation, finally managing to clarify, bring order and give greater regulation to the various working relationships in the vast world of sport, traditionally characterized by the need for strong flexibility” . This was stated by the general secretary of Fisascat Cisl, Davide Guarini commenting on the agreement reached on the renewal of the contract which will affect the entire sector. “When everyone works, with responsibility, commitment and determination, important results can be achieved both on a regulatory and economic level. We therefore believe that this renewal represents the clear demonstration of how good bargaining is and remains the best tool to guarantee rights, protection and wages even in very complex sectors such as sport, which by its nature needs to manage the indispensable flexibility with balance without sacrificing the dignity of work”, adds Guarini.
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