Felsa Cisl, Nidil Cgil and Uiltemp have signed an agreement supplementary agreement with the employment agency Intempo and the Cooperative Port of Ravenna for the improvement of conditions temporary workers (former temporary workers). The agreement, which is valid for the years 2023 and 2024 with the parties who have committed to meeting at a joint table by December 2024 to verify the results obtained, it has the to achieve business continuity and enhancement of the professionalism of workers in administration, also in the light of experience and seniority matured in the port sector. The agreement provides for an increase in guaranteed working days (increase in working hours linked to seniority and job as well as the transformation, upon reaching the 36 months of seniority, of the employment contract in staff leasing, i.e. the most protective form of contract in the of the supply of work.

Stressing that this is an important first step in a gradual, but necessary, path to ensure good and stable employment in which the involvement of the of the RSU of the workers on temporary contracts of the Port Cooperative elected for the first time in August 2019 Last year, the trade unions recalled that the provision of work in the port area and on the docks has a peculiarity all its own: it is the tool that guarantees the coverage of the non-programmable work shifts, regulated by Law 84/94 according to that, only after exhausting its workforce, the Cooperativa Portuale can start recruiting through agency for the performance of port operations. That- the trade unions have specified - it has by force of circumstances an element of precariousness in such contracts, so much so that Intempo's workers have historically worked in the various Italian ports with part time or, in many cases, daily.