(ANSA) - Rome, September 6 - The government will allocate
235 million euros in welfare measures for 30,000 laid-off
workers, union sources said Tuesday after a meeting at the labor
ministry.
The measure - which includes an extra 12 months of
unemployment insurance and 500 euros a month for those without
any benefits at all - covers laid-off workers in so-called
crisis areas in and around the cities of Ascoli Piceno, Gela,
Livorno, Piombino, Taranto, Termini and Trieste as well as parts
of the southern Molise region.
It includes 150 million for the 500-euro monthly subsidy
and 85 million euros for the extended unemployment insurance, if
the workers have been laid off from companies that intend to
hire them back.
The measure will be inserted into a corrective decree to
the Jobs Act labour reform law in the coming days, the sources
said.
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In 'crisis areas' from North to South