prompt Federmar the government to activate itself in order to promote the boarding of the Apprentice officers



The Federation Marine (Federmar) speeds up the government to activate itself in order to promote the boarding of the Apprentice officers maintaining so faith to own engagement face to the increase of the occupation, in particular of that juvenile one. The national secretary of the labor organization, Alessandro Pico, has emphasized that the Apprentice officers are "young to the deprived of hope search of a boarding to the aim to carry out the first twelve necessary months of navigation for the acquisition of the professional title. In 2003, with I decree legislative n. 344 on 12 December - Pico has remembered - were instituted the "Tonnage-Tax", a very favorable fiscal regime for the benefit of the marine enterprises, which, however, had to submit to a series of tasks, between these obligation (art. 157 codicil 3) of formation of the "cadets" (Apprentice officers) according to modality to settle with a next one decree of not prescribed nature by the ministry of the Economy and Finances. On June 23, 2005 the provision in argument saw the light, where, to art. the 7 codicil 3, was confirmed the boarding of an Apprentice officer on board of each of the ships subject to the Tonnage-Tax. Unfortunately - it has found Pico - to the ministry they must not have the very clear ideas on which they were the requirements of the nautical graduates who wished to undertake the career of the sea (between these, compulsory requirement of the twelve months of navigation before to support the examination for the professional title) and, most likely also behind pressure of the associations of the shipowners, he was statuito that, in alternative to the boarding, the Marine companies could pour to the National Bottom a annual amount for every not boarded Student to assign to the expenses for their training, then fixed amount with I decree 17 Decembers 2008 of the ministry of Infrastructures and of the Transports in 22.732 annual euros to dawn on the base of the Istat indices of variation of the prices. The result of such option - the representative of Federmar has denounced - has been that, except little exceptions, almost all the shipowning enterprises that make use of the Tonnage-Tax have favorite, for administrative convenience, to monetizzare the obligation of the formation of the nautical graduates, removing but in such a way vital space for their start in the marine world of work".

According to Federmar, "considered that the navigation enterprises are already supporting a burden for the formation of every Student that they do not embark, sufficient burden for the annual cover of the salary and wage of such initial qualification, and moreover that the formation of the future sailor always has been understanding that carried out in the edge practice during the period of boarding", in order to promote the boarding of the Apprentice officers "would be sufficient that the ministry of the Economy modified its decrees on June 23, 2005, simply cancelling the six art. the 7 lines of codicil 3 that gives the faculty to the enterprises to opt between boarding and monetizzazione. In such a way, at no additional cost for the companies - Pico has explained - the boys exited from the Nautical ones would be facilitated in finding employment on board of the ships, to complete the demanded training in order to enter in possession of the professional title and, at last, to have a sure guarantee of occupation for the future from the moment that permane an elevated deficiency of officials in all the marinerie of the world".

Pico has accused the government "to remain absent guilty" "on this matter, as however for the serious occupational problems that plague the marine Italians, also in the presence of thousands and thousands of covered places of work but with non-EU workers".