Employment

The three-year Staff Needs Plan, as now provided for in Article 6 TUPI, is a tool aimed at 'identifying the needs of public administration'. It presupposes a mapping of administrative functions and requires consistency with the Performance Plan, as currently provided for in positive law. The three-year Staff Needs Plan must not, however, constitute an obstacle to good performance of public administration. Such good performance requires annual updating and compliance with the principles set by the Court of auditors. That Court has the duty to review so that its implementation is not arbitrary and does not harm the interests of the community.

The Draghi government has taken office at a time when the labour market, characterised by the decisive influence of information technologies and a high degree of mobility, is undergoing great changes. The emergence of the pandemic, which had been underway for almost a year when the Draghi government was sworn in, has hit the labour market with the destruction of jobs and the failure to create new ones, while at the same time accentuating the disruptive processes underway (IT, mobility). The phenomenon is supranational, and the European Union is acting on two levels: facing up to the emergency (SURE, Youth initiative, EU Next Generation, etc.) and intervening on the basis of a strategy focused on investment in information technologies. It is these technologies which are changing production processes and how trades and professions are carried out, reshaping the labour market while making it necessary for workers to upskill and have IT profiles and creating a strong asymmetry between workers and their employment prospects. The Premier’s speech and the government’s programme are taking this problem into account: on the one hand, they have announced reforms of the assegno di riallocazione reallocation allowance and of job centres, on the other hand, they are talking about strengthening infrastructure (broadband, 5G) and the transversality of the Digital Transition. All of which seems appropriate. The hope is that all this will be done in the European strategic context and that the employment market becomes the omnipresent pivot of the transversal transition.