PCP wants compulsory private food allowance. Minimum of 6,15 €

Athe measures are included in a set of five initiatives (three bills and two resolutions, without force of law) delivered to Parliament today by the communists in the labor field.

In one of the bills, the CFP proposes to regularise the employees contracted under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) whose functions correspond to the permanent needs of the Public Administration.

The party maintains that about 2,000 workers “recognized by all as essential in the functioning of services”, including ministry, institutes, agencies, general directions and CCDR, “are facing the threat of unemployment, mostly by the end of the year.”.

The CFP therefore advocates the creation of the necessary vacancies on staff maps and that these workers be integrated through undetermined public employment links, with the time of service already provided to be counted for career progression purposes.

The Communists had already presented a similar initiative in June this year, which was rejected generally with the votes against PSD, IL and CDS-PP, Abstention of Arrivo and PS and favorable votes for Free, PCP, BE, PAN and JPP.

In another initiative, the PCP proposes, among several changes in the Labour Code, to transform the current “presumption of employment contract” provided for in the legislation into “effective proof of the existence of employment contract” and also to extend the evidence that proves the existence of a labor bond.

The proposal also reduces to two possible renewals of fixed-term contracts and fixes in three years the maximum duration of uncertain term contracts, while proposing that illegal recourse to precarious hiring results in an impediment for companies to receive tax benefits for two years or to apply for Community funds or State support for three years.

In this set of proposals, the CFP also proposes that the payment of food allowance becomes mandatory in the private sector for each working day effectively provided, setting the minimum amount to be paid to the employees of the Public Administration (currently €6.15 per day).

This proposal also provides that teleworking workers are also entitled to this allowance.

In the two draft resolutions presented, the Communist bench recommends that the government set up specific labour and retirement schemes for shift workers and various sectors of industry.

For these two professional groups, the party advocates a reform “without any penalty” and with a minimum bonus of 2.2% for every two years of service and an increased employer contribution to Social Security “considering the special risk and pain in which [these workers] carry out the work to which they are assigned”.