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Brussels/Rome (ANSA) – The European Fee refers Italy to the EU Court docket of Justice for failing to finish extreme use of fixed-term contracts and discriminatory working situations in colleges. Italy, says the Fee, “has not adopted the required guidelines to ban discrimination relating to working situations and the abusive use of successive fixed-term contracts”.
Moreover, the laws on the wage of short-term lecturers in public colleges that “doesn’t present for wage development based mostly on earlier service durations” constitutes “discrimination in comparison with lecturers with everlasting contracts”. The Fee believes that “the efforts of the authorities have been, to date, inadequate”.
The Minister of Training Giuseppe Valditara responds that he has lengthy submitted to the Fee the necessity to evaluation the recruitment system of Italian lecturers “overcoming the rigidities of the PNRR reform that create an goal discrimination in opposition to short-term lecturers and don’t take note of the growing numbers of precarious work lately. We confidently await that the equalization of rights can now even be prolonged to recruitment strategies”.
The variety of lecturers with fixed-term contracts has exploded lately. There have been 100 thousand in 2015-16, 135 thousand in 2017-18, 212 thousand in 2020-21, as much as 235 thousand in 2022-23, in line with Tuttoscuola information. This 12 months, unions estimate 250 thousand short-term lecturers, however for the Ministry of Training, they’re 160 thousand. The phenomenon shouldn’t be homogeneous throughout the territory: with a nationwide precariousness charge of 25%, in Milan it reaches 37%, in Lodi 43%. Decrease incidence within the south: in Naples 20%, in Agrigento 10% (October 3).
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