Job placement for the disabled, up to 32,000 euro per recruit
The Lombardy Region and Unioncamere announcement has been extended until 19 December
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Despite the tightening of penalties for failing to hire disabled workers (EUR 196.05 per day of failure, ed.), there are still many companies in Lombardy that prefer to pay hefty fines rather than comply with the law and hire employees belonging to protected categories. To give an idea of how far there is still to go, just take a look at the regional piggy bank that collects, by law, the fines and exemption contributions of companies: this year the Fund for the Employment of the Disabled exceeded 80 million.
It is in this context that the Lombardy Region and Unioncamere announcement on inclusive work has been deliberately extended until 19 December.
The notice is not a mere dispenser of resources but has the ambition of wanting to bring about a change of mentality in the community. The practice underlying the notice was agreed upon with the associations, employers and trade unions (the 68 table so called by law 68/99, the framework law for the Right to Work of the Disabled) to try to achieve the objectives of integrating disabled workers into the world of work as much as possible.
'Our starting point was the desire to bring about a cultural change among companies,' explains the regional councillor for Employment and Education, Simona Tironi, 'We wanted to aim high with the awareness that hiring a disabled worker cannot just be a legislative fulfilment, but that the newly hired employee is a great value to be included in one's company. We can put in place the best initiatives in the world, but without this change of mentality we will go nowhere'.
According to the philosophy of the notice, people must not only be welcomed but also valued, because if the task is not adequately studied, the entire job placement process is at risk. The perspective must be that of added value, not a mere formal fulfilment.
