The appeal for a single representative body for the port sector launched by Assiterminal from the stage of its assembly has already achieved the result of a choral and joint request also signed by Ancip, Assologistica and Uniport so that specific measures for the early retirement fund and the recognition of arduous work for those who work on the docks are included in the decree law renamed ‘1 Maggio’.
With a note, the associations representing companies operating in ports, “considering that port work is characterized by physical intensity, exposure to peculiar risk factors and shift work – it is written – ask the Government and all political forces for an urgent and no longer deferrable intervention on two critical issues of the national logistics-port system, shared over the years also with trade union organizations”.
The first concerns “the formal recognition of some port duties among the arduous jobs (Legislative Decree 67/2011). The failure to recognize this represents a no longer justifiable disparity since it deprives port workers of protections recognized for other categories”; the second “the establishment of the fund for incentivizing early retirement, useful for promoting, among other things, the necessary generational turnover and the reduction of the gender gap”.
The appeal that the associations address to the Government is “unitary because the interests we intend to represent are unitary”, namely “protection of work, safeguarding safety, guaranteeing competitiveness and sustainability for a strategic sector for the country. Arduous work and the Early Retirement Incentive Fund are interconnected issues and both urgently require a coherent solution”.
On the occasion of the informal hearings held yesterday at the Labor Commission of the Chamber of Deputies for the conversion of the DL 1° maggio, the associations heard delivered two amending proposals on the aforementioned measures.
