Chemical-pharmaceutical sector, joint notice signed
Signed by unions and companies. The agreement follows up on the Pact for Innovation, Productivity, Employability and Social Responsibility. The plan concerns the establishment of a bilateral solidarity fund, activated on the voluntary choice of workers and businesses
Farmindustria, Federchimica and trade union organizations (Filctem Cgil, Femca Cisl and Uiltec Uil) have found the solution to facilitate the entry into the world of work for many young people by responsibly guaranteeing generational turnover and the active aging of workers. That's the goal of the common notice that was signed, following the process envisaged by the “Pact for 
innovation, productivity, employability and social responsibility” signed on 17 October 2017 and in line with the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement on contractual welfare, balancing work/professional needs, training, income support. The parties give the news, in a joint note.
The project is about the establishment of a bilateral solidarity fund, activated on the voluntary choice of workers and companies in the sector, managed by INPS following the publication of the founding decree by the Ministries of Labor and the Economy. The fund, first in Italy of its kind, provides benefits that can be combined with each other and concerning all workers, including managers, in order to: disburse an extraordinary allowance for income support to workers who meet the requirements for old-age or early retirement in the following five years; ensure workers additional benefits, with respect to those provided for by law, in the event of voluntary termination of the employment relationship; contribute to the financing of training programs for professional retraining or retraining.
Once again the trade associations and trade unions in the chemical and pharmaceutical sectors “present a highly innovative proposal, which confirms the quality of the industrial relations system – they explain -. In fact, the establishment of the fund represents another important element for the protection of workers and for making the sector increasingly innovative and competitive at an international level in a scenario of rapid and profound technological and scientific evolutions. A socially responsible approach, dictated not by contingent crisis situations, but by the awareness that concrete tools are needed to face the rapid changes that the digital and technological revolution imposes, with the inclusion of new professional figures and new skills“, they conclude.
The project concerns the establishment of a Bilateral Solidarity Fund, activated on the voluntary choice of workers and companies in the sector, managed by INPS following the publication of the founding decree by the Ministries of Labor and the Economy.
The Fund, the first of its kind in Italy, provides benefits that can be combined with each other and concerning all workers, including managers, in order to:
- disburse an extraordinary allowance for income support to workers who meet the requirements for old-age or early retirement in the following five years;
- ensure workers additional benefits, with respect to those provided for by law, in the event of voluntary termination of the employment relationship;
- contribute to the financing of training programs for professional retraining or retraining.
The objectives of this Fund consist in coping with the innovation processes of companies which tend to expel older workers with the risk that they do not have the conditions to be able to access retirement and to also be able to favor generational turnover.
Related news: Joint press release
Agreement for the establishment of the Bilateral Solidarity Fund
