The Port System Authority of the Tyrrhenian Seas Southern and Ionian held an information meeting with the representatives of trade unions and terminal companies in the port of Gioia Tauro, Medcenter Container Terminal and Automar, for promote the establishment of the Port Employment Agency, Regulated pursuant to Article 17, paragraph 5 of the Law 84/94 which is destined to take over from Gioia Tauro Port Agency Srl, the port agency established in 2017 following the programme agreement signed on 27 July 2016 between the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, the Region, Invitalia and the of the Port System for the administration of work and for the retraining of workers made redundant by the port companies authorised to handle containers. At following a series of extensions over the years, which have led to determined its duration at 78 months, the validity of the Port Agency It will end at the end of next January.

The Port Employment Agency will be a limited liability company, which will have as its object the provision of temporary work to port undertakings with a workforce which, at the time of its establishment, should consist of 77 unit. The share capital base will be ten thousand and the annual operating costs are expected to be equal to 114,600 euros. In the first phase of experimentation, which will last 12 months after its launch, the Port System Authority will participate by subscribing to 49% of the share capital, while the remaining part will have to be signed, in part equal, by the companies authorized pursuant to art. 16 and 18 of the law 84/94.

At the end of the trial period, the provides that the Port System Authority must progressively divest of its shares, which will have to be signed by the private party, given the nature of the exclusively private of the company. In the following the trial, the PSA will in any case maintain the guarantee function through its own internal presence of the management and administrative body.

The PSA announced that, at the end of the meeting, it was There was a favourable openness to the procedure among those present establishment of the Port Employment Agency.