The use of widely abused vouchers
for occasional work is to be capped at 3,000 euros for
households and companies and hirings are to be automatically
triggered if firms exceed legal limits, according to a paper
approved on a House panel Thursday.
The paper said the nominal value of each voucher would be set
at 10 euros for non-entrepreneurs and professionals and at 15
euros for entrepreneurs and professionals without staff.
The government is trying to reform voucher schemes so as to
avert a union-sponsored referendum that would ask Italians to
scrap them.
Suasanna Camusso of the big leftwing union that sponsored the
referendum, CGIL, said the proposed changes were not "radical"
enough to void the referendum.
Vouchers were intended to be used just for occasional work
but their use has expanded exponentially to pay for longer term
and sometimes steady jobs.
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