(Finance) – In tourism, employment must be safeguarded and unilateral dismissal procedures avoided making use of all the social safety nets. She said it on Welfare Minister Andrea Orlandospeaking at the Table on Tourism in Rome.
“In the first quarter of this year, for facilitate the use of social safety netswe intervened with two specific rules in support of the tourism sector “, explained Orlando, citing the exemption until March 31 of the payment of the additional contribution and the 8 additional weeks of layoffs usable until 31 December 2022 by employers employing up to 15 employees.
These two interventions are placed in a more general context of structural reform of shock absorbers social, implemented with the budget law, which extended the number of workers covered by wage supplements. 12.4 million workers are covered: 9.9 million employees of companies to which the Cigs is extended, 1.5 million workers of companies employing up to 5 employees who are granted the ordinary allowance for the first time of the FIS, 1 million workers who are granted the salary integration allowance of the FIS alongside the CIGS.
“The extension of the Cigs also to tourism companies employing more than 15 employees makes it possible to equip companies in the sector with crisis management tools and transformation and reorganization processessafeguarding employment levels and investing in people’s skills “, said the Minister.
“There is, however, a point from which we cannot escape, the willingness of the company to use these toolswhich, although they may be even more advantageous, cannot support a business liquidation or restart logic, because they are all tools that are aimed at the continuity of the business“, concluded Orlando, reiterating that the Ministry will prevent the exploitation of these tools aimed at dismissing and resuming.