Federations criticise draft mobility decree for provinces

Trade unions have strongly criticised the health minister for publishing two Royal decrees affecting health workers. The first would allow non-nursing staff to carry out some nursing duties. Unions say there are no details on how this would work in practice. The second provides powers to requisition health staff to work. The unions argue that this comes at a time when the infection rate is beginning to fall but more importantly was not even needed at the height of the crisis when health workers were doing all they could do fight the pandemic. The unions say that the decrees have been imposed

A draft law that would change the rules on civil servants’ job mobility and career progression is being debated in the National Assembly a year after being passed by the Senate. Unions are very worried about the implications of the legislation which they say will make it easier for public sector employers to make civil servants redundant during a restructuring and to make more use of fixed-term workers. The FO civil service trade union federation was planning to mobilise its members and take strike action in early July in protest at the proposals. [Read more at > CGT (FR)->http://www

The public service federations - Fp-Cgil, Cisl-Fp, Uil-Pa and Uil-Fpl - organised a national demonstration in Rome on 11 April in protest at the impact of restructuring in public administration at provincial and metropolitan level. The unions argue that massive cuts in funding are leading to a decline in services while restructuring is leading to lots of temporary workers as well as permanent staff losing their jobs. The unions want to see proper negotiations to improve services and reduce waste and that will make full use of the skilled professional working in the sector. [Read more at > Fp