Stop to temporary employement in Italy
Piero Visconti
Wednesday, 01 October 2008 00:11 UTC
With a proposed amendment the Italian government is intending to interrupt the temporary employment in the public administration which will affect all the “precari” in the public research institutions in Italy. You can find the text of the amendment here
The amendment, aka “Brunetta” after the minister of public administration and innovation, is supposedly aimed at cutting the cost of the temporary employment, increasing the efficiency and promoting the stabilization with competitive examination.
Its practical effects however is that thousands of temporary employee will lose their job 30 days after the promulgation of the decree.
The reaction of the unions is expected to be massive, those affected by the amendment at the newborn ISPRA, Insitute for the Protection and Research of the Environment (we can discuss about the implication for the research on the environment generated by the creation of this maxy-agency in a separate post)are already occupying the main offices in sign of protest.50% of the employees of the institute are expected to lose their job for the effect of the amendment. It is not currently known how many will be recruited with a competitive examination and when this will happen.
Here I’d like to ask: will you be affected by the amendment? Do you agree with the protest? What do you think is the most effective way to change the political agenda in terms of funding research and promoting job security for Italian researchers?
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Hi there,
these are catastrophic news for me.
I am looking for a postdoc: this would need that my quest will be even more difficult than expected.I hope that this story of the competitive examination is not a bluff.
I would obviously like that research public employment is based on fair competition, but I have strong doubts about the real chances to achieve that in Italy. The patronage of full professors is too strong.
First of all, why didn’t they adapt the contracts of the actual “precari”, instead of firing them??
Research already tremendously lacks human resources in Italy… whatever is done to further reduce these resources is another lethal blow to Italian science.
Gianluca
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There is great turmoil indeed. Radio3Scienza, Rai 3 radio science daily program, will broadcast on this issue tomorrow, Thursday.
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would you please make a brief report of this Radio broadcast? I won’t be able to listen….
Thanx!
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Gianluca, this is available as a podcast here
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I do not work in a lab but “here”:http://www.galileonet.it/primo-piano/10720/la-ricerca-dimezzata you can find the information on how the amendment, if it will be approved as it is now, will affect on of the Institute of the CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche).
I think it will be useful for the discussion that more and more institutes publish their numbers in term of % of “precari” between the researchers and in terms of budget’s % that these people assure to their labs trough EU projects.
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