Action Programme for the re-employment of disadvantaged workers. PARI Programme

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Action Programme for the re-employment of disadvantaged

workers

PARI

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What is PARI: goals

Designing and testing a methodology to ensure the necessary measures to support the security of the professional pathways and citizenship rights, through the setting up of a services’ network for the citizen-worker, that supports the worker in his/her activation, through the creation of conditions for introducing the “conditionality” principle: the right to receive an income protection and the duty to search for actively a new job.

Testing a labour policy model based on active welfare, with reference to the goals defined by the EU Lisbon Strategy and within the Italian reform of the “Social Shock Absorbers” system.

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PARI:

intervention

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s lines

Developing and empowering the intervention plan to create a standard structure to manage a spread and

sustainable system of security

Integration of systems, actors and sources:

1. Development of the governance of labour policies

Effective network of personalised services:

2. Empowering of the labour services

Link between active and passive policies to favour the employment of disadvantaged workers :

4. Actions of re-employment towards workers included in the “Social Shock Absorbers” system and specific categories of workers, in particular, women

and over 50 workers

Knowledge of workers receiving an income protection:

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The governance

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s model

Creation of places where are actively involved all labour market actors, in the respect of the principles of

subsidiarity and complementarity .

Constitution of 18 Regional Tables where is constant the sharing of aims, intervention models, actions, empowering each contribution in the respect of specific

competences.

120 subjectshave been involved: regional and provincial institutions, trade unions, associations, INPS.

154 Operative Territorial Groupshave been constituted to manage actions at an operative level. They involve

practitioners from Italia Lavoro and Job Centres, provincial institutions, trade unions, private actors of the

labour market. Ministry of Labour Social partners Provinces Regions

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Empowering of the connection and cooperation between Job Centres and INPS (National Institute for the Social Insurance).

Supporting and strengthening of Public Employment Services; in particular:

• Job Centres in verifying their functionality, in terms of resources and tools, with reference to the “Social Shock Absorbers” reform

• Job centres, empowering their role of direction in the active labour

measures at a local level.

Empowering of the labour employment services

Empowering of the connection and the complementarity with the private actors, the training system, the social service.

Elaboration of a plan that could allow to manage all the activities resulting from the “Social Shock Absorbers” reform.

308 re-employment workstations inside the Public Employment Centres.

About 600 public employment service operators involved in the supply of services towards workers and employers.

Transfer to the public employment service practitioners of methodology and instruments aimed at the re-employment of specific workers' groups.

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Permanent monitoring

Income protection policies Active labour policies The monitoring system enables to

collect data on the beneficiaries of social security measures and on the budget necessary to finance the whole

system

Ministry of Labour

Regions

Provinces

Improved effectiveness of re-employment actions, based on information about every single worker and on personalised reintegration pathways

Improved planning and careful resources allocation on the base of needs' analysis

Use of maps regarding the areas in crisis and of data-bases on workers beneficiaries of income support measures, that enable to intervene promptly and to plan actions targeted to specific situations

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PARI

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actions of re

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employment: methodology

• Integration of active and passive measures of labour policies

• Interinstitutional cooperation

• Involvement of the main actors of the labour market: the Ministry of Labour, Regions, labour services and social partners.

Opportunity for the worker to receive services specifically aimed at his/her re-insertion in the labour market and “convenient system” towards workers and firms.

Actions of re-employment in 18 regions, addressed to workers receiving unemployment benefits and to disadvantages workers not benefiting of any income protection, in particular women and over 50 workers

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The worker

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s activation

SERVICE AGREEMENT

Formal pact where mutual rights and duties as well as responsibilities in the personalised pathway are defined

SERVICE AGREEMENT

Formal pact where mutual rights and duties as well as responsibilities in

the personalised pathway are defined Worker Public job

centre

All the targeted workers can benefit of the projected personalised services of re-employment, supplied by the Job Centre.

In addition, workers without any income protection receive a benefit by €_{450 monthly}_{, for a maximum}

period of ten months. If he/she is hired before the end of the period the remained sum goes to the hiring company.

Companies that hire the targeted workers can benefit of a “hiring bonus” by € _{5.000 per worker.}

All the targeted workers can also benefit of a training individual and personalised voucher to spend in training activities strictly linked to the professional pathway of reintegration in the labour market. The value of the training “dowry” can vary from €_{1.000 to}€_5.000.

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PARI

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results

(31/03/2008)

Reduction by

19.236

53% out of approximately 36.000 reached workers 5.746

workers received the individual training voucher

1.633

workers came out of the Programme thanks to the actions (retirement, insurance check, incentive to retire)) 9.636 workers initially came out of the

Programme (absence, refusal, retirement, already

re-employed) 36.488 contacted workers 26.852 workers included in re-employment pathways 8.698 re-employed workers (70% with permanent contract)