Referendum held in Italy 8. and 9. June this year, and in which citizens should be pledged in relation to five issues, among other things, whether they were reformed by a strict citizenship law, failed. Due to insufficient turnout, which amounted to about 30 percent, which is far less than 50 percent plus one vote, which is the legal threshold, the referendum was declared invalid. This result represents a significant defeat for the parties to the left center and the civic initiative that supported it.
And while the proposers accuse the Italian Prime Minister Giorgou Meloni and her ruling Radiocese party (Brothers of Italy), within the Melona party, is open, and say that the “real goal of the Government”, not improving the rights of migrants and workers.
Charges of the opposition and authorities
Opposition leaders accuse the authorities to intentionally suffocate the public debate on issues that directly affect the lives of millions of people. “This was not an ordinary political campaign – this was the question of human dignity,” Elena Ferri, the Left Center MP. “The government chose fear and quiet instead of dialogue.”
Critics also point to the lack of media coverage and institutional engagement during preparation for voting. Associations for migrant rights accuse the authorities to create “deliberate vacuum”, to prevent citizens’ informing and reduced interest, especially among young people of the second generation of migrants.
As forbes, BiH was written, according to Istat, something more than 2.5 million foreigners work in Italy. The referendum issue proposes to abolish part of the 1992 Law. Years that stipulates that adult citizens of EU countries must live 10 years in Italy to be able to make a request for citizenship. That the referendum managed to decrease the period for five years, as it was before 1992. years. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her right-wing party Fratelli d’Italia (Italian Brothers) publicly called citizens not to go to vote. Those who oppose this proposal, considered five years too small for true integration.
Deprived the country’s legal identity
According to the applicable Italian law, children born in Italy than parents who are not citizens must wait for the advertisement to start the naturalization process at all – the disposal that many see as classical policy towards migrants. The proposed reforms were to introduce elements of IUS salts (“right ground”) and enable the easier integration of families that have been living and working in Italy for years.
“These children attend Italian schools, they speak Italian, they feel like Italians – but they are denied the legal identity of the country in which they were born,” Khaled el-Masri, local activist from Naples.
In the same tone, the opposition representative of Riccardo Magi also spoke, from the left-oriented party to Più Europa (more Europe). “Citizenship laws are the way the country defines its identity, as well as the way he looks at his future,” he said. “We currently have young people, maybe 25 or 27 years old, who were born here, studied here, and yet they do not have Italian citizenship. I think that Ignorations of that and their disobey the types of self-harming,” said Magi.
What was five referendum issues?
Four issues referred to the labor rights, proposed by the CGIL union, and one concerning the conditions for the acquisition of Italian citizenship, was launched by the party + Europa. The first question concerned the abolition of the part of the so-called Jobs Act reforms, legislative decree 23 of 2015. Year-in-law of employee workers after 7. March 2015 in companies with more than 15 employees. In the event that the employer is illegally dismissed, they are entitled to a monetary compensation of up to 36 salaries, but without automatic return to work. In the event that citizens voted to amend the law, workers would receive the same rights as workers who are employed before 7. March, according to the so-called. Fornero Law from 2012, which enables the return to work in certain cases. Such a solution unions considered fairer and more efficient.
Contracts and illegal cancellations
Responsibility for work on work in contracts contracts – The issue was explained by Corierre Della sera, referred to the joint responsibility of the customer and performers (or subcontractors) of work work. Currently, the client is not responsible for the so-called. “Specific risks” of the artist. The abolition of this exception was proposed (Article 26, paragraph 4, Law no. 81/2008). That most voted for, responsibility would expand to the customer, including the specific risks of the contractor. The goal was to control death at work. Protivities warned on the other side of the possible stop of works due to increased costs and risks.
Another question concerned with workers’ rights was related to the reasons that the employer must state when concluding the contract to determined. Currently, they have an obligation to state the reason if the contract with a worker lasts longer than 12 months. The proposers requested that the reasons are stated from the first day of work, as this would prevent the abuse of the contract for a certain period of time. The opponents of the proposal considered that the change could lead to employers not employing.
In Italy, the law currently envisions that the employee in the case of cancellation in small firms up to 15 employees pays up to six salaries, and in the companies considered medium in size and employ up to 60 workers, 14 salaries. The proposers of the referendum issues searched for more freedom of the Court in the decision-making of the amount of the employee’s amount, which would mean flexibility in decision-making, because in large Prague is up to 24 or 36 salaries, writes Forbes.
