(see related) A female "quota"
will be able to benefit from a new decree making it easier for
people close to retirement to go part time at the end of their
careers to get round the problem of alleged gender inequality in
the provision, Labour Minister Giuliano Poletti said Thursday.
"In this experimental first launch a quota of women will be
able to have the possibility of going part time three years from
retirement," Poletti said in response to criticism that the new
measure enacting a clause in the 2016 budget law excludes women.
The question of female access "doesn't depend on the labour
minister or on the (2016) stability law, but on pensions laws
that have been drawn up in a particular way," he added.
Italy's third largest trades union confederation UIL said
Thursday the problem could be overcome by applying the 2006
equal opportunities code.
"The government aims at self-sufficiency and it ends up
with insufficiency," said UIL general secretary Carmelo
Barbagallo.
"With social dialogue it would have avoided this mistake,"
he added.
Barbagallo also expressed the importance of discussion
with social partners in completely re-thinking Italy's welfare
system in view of its ageing population.
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