Labour unions on Tuesday
described as "totally unsatisfactory" a meeting with Treasury
officials to find a solution to the situation of unemployed
workers who are in advanced adult age but without access to
pension rights for a number of years.
"The mobilisation continues," said Italy's three biggest
labour union confederations CGIL, CISL and UIL after the meeting
with Treasury undersecretary Pier Paolo Baretta.
Baretta reportedly proposed another meeting in a fortnight.
Meanwhile the economy and labour ministries said in a joint
statement Tuesday that the government was working to relieve the
'discomfort' faced by the so-called 'esodati' (exiled ones)
created by the controversial 2011 Fornero pensions reform,
introduced by the technocrat government of Mario Monti as part
of austerity measures introduced to shore up Italy's struggling
economy.
Lawmakers have since intervened on six separate occasions
to safeguard the esodati, but approximately 50,000 people have
allegedly slipped through the net.
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