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OSS precariousness: the update after the hearing in the Chamber of Deputies Commission on 5 February

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It's no secret that the healthcare sector has been experiencing spending cuts and staff reductions for years. The need for skilled workers has been met through the use, sometimes even a simple ploy, of flexible working arrangements, leveraging the use of service cooperatives (whose costs are included in the "expenditure on goods and services" budget) to circumvent personnel spending limits. This, on the one hand, has allowed regions and healthcare agencies to comply with budget limits, but on the other, it has led to an increase in precarious employment, with the risk that healthcare services may be entrusted to individuals who don't always possess the necessary skills. Furthermore, this phenomenon has encouraged the spread of clientelistic practices, and even the "judicial" evidence is plain for all to see. We are therefore aware that healthcare performance levels must be linked to a robust personnel policy: in short, only with new hires and the proper stabilization of temporary staff will patients be able to access adequate, high-quality healthcare. This was discussed on February 5th in the Social Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies with representatives of the Caserta Local Health Authority's social workers, assisted by lawyers Pasquale Fedele, Raffaele Bencivenga, Rosalba Rispo, and Angela Bisogno. The meeting, which provided an opportunity to review the challenges facing the social workers category, is now beginning to bear fruit.

The issue, of primary concern to precarious workers in the healthcare sector, but also and above all to the quality of services provided to users while respecting essential levels of care, was immediately addressed by interpellations from Members of Parliament: Sportiello, D'Arrando, Baroni, Bologna, Guidolin, Lapia, Lorefece, Mammi', Menga, Nappi, Nesci, Provenza, Sapia, Sarli, Trizzino, Troiano, and Volpi. The Minister promptly argued, citing the provisions of Law No. 208/2015 (the 2016 Stability Law) and the extraordinary hiring plan in the National Health Service, partly reserved for precarious workers. To ensure that these extraordinary hirings took into account the actual needs of the National Health Service (NHS) entities, the legislation required the Regions to submit a specific needs plan to be evaluated by the Compliance and Monitoring Committees. With regard to the Campania Region, at the meeting of the Technical Review Committee on December 17, 2018, specifically convened to assess the submitted plan, it was decided that requests for new hires or potential permanent positions could be accepted with respect to the permanent OSS staff present as of December 31, 2016, also taking into account terminations that occurred in 2017, up to a maximum of 1.537. Consequently, the Technical Review Committee specifically requested the Region (the Commissioner's Office) to take into account, in these hiring procedures, similar services provided within cooperatives and to provide relevant information. The ball is now in the Campania Region's court, which will have to implement the necessary measures to effectively hire the aforementioned personnel, provided that no obstacles remain.

Article published on February 18, 2019 - 14:21 PM - News Desk

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