The outbreak of Covid-19 has highlighted the fragility of our population and especially of the elderly, as shown by the high mortality among them. However, this situation has an impact on the labor market, considering that the high average seniority of workers has required a particular attention to the most fragile subjects and those most exposed to contagion, in order to safety perform work. Companies have had to deal with the aspects of age management in the transformation and reorganization phase of work during and after the lockdown, in order to ensure generational safety and sustainability within companies. In this context, to which we must add the deep recession and the employment collapse resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, the Great Transformation envisaged by the European Green Deal and the Next Generation EU requires the strengthening and systematization of the tools that favor, beyond the end of the health emergency, a lasting employability for vulnerable workers. The recent measures launched by our legislator analyzed in this contribution focus on the employment support policies and employment transitions to accompany the modernization of the country’s economic system towards a sustainable and digital economy. At the same time they are able to strengthening age management policies to adapt the professional skills of older workers and make them active subjects, or better resources, both for the individual organization and the labor market
L’emergenza epidemiologica da Covid- 19 ha messo in evidenza la fragilità della nostra struttura demografica associata all’invecchiamento della popolazione, come dimostrato dall’elevata mortalità tra le fasce più anziane. Gli effetti, tuttavia, si sono manifestati anche sul mercato del lavoro, soprattutto laddove l’elevata anzianità media dei lavoratori ha richiesto di prestare particolare attenzione ai soggetti più fragili e ai più esposti al contagio, per la ripresa in sicurezza delle attività. Le imprese hanno dovuto affrontare gli aspetti di age management nella fase di trasformazione e riorganizzazione delle attività lavorative post-lockdown, al fine di garantire sicurezza e sostenibilità generazionale all’interno delle imprese. In questo contesto, a cui bisogna aggiungere la profonda recessione e il crollo occupazionale conseguenti alla pandemia Covid-19, la Grande Trasformazione prospettata dal Green Deal europeo e dal Next Generation EU impone il rafforzamento e la sistematizzazione degli strumenti che favoriscano, oltre l’emergenza sanitaria in atto, un’occupabilità duratura per le categorie di lavoratori particolarmente vulnera-bili. Le recenti misure varate dal nostro legislatore analizzate nel presente contributo dedicano un’attenzione prioritaria alle politiche di sostegno all’occupazione e alle transizioni occupazionali, per accompagnare la modernizzazione del sistema economico del Paese verso un’economia sostenibile e digitale, potendo dare impulso, nel contempo, a politiche di age management, per adeguare le competenze professionali dei lavoratori più anziani e renderli soggetti attivi, o meglio risorse, tanto per la singola organizzazione quanto all’interno del mercato del lavoro.
Le misure di sostegno all’occupazione dei lavoratori over 50 nell’era post Covid-19,
Carmela Garofalo
2022-01-01
Abstract
The outbreak of Covid-19 has highlighted the fragility of our population and especially of the elderly, as shown by the high mortality among them. However, this situation has an impact on the labor market, considering that the high average seniority of workers has required a particular attention to the most fragile subjects and those most exposed to contagion, in order to safety perform work. Companies have had to deal with the aspects of age management in the transformation and reorganization phase of work during and after the lockdown, in order to ensure generational safety and sustainability within companies. In this context, to which we must add the deep recession and the employment collapse resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, the Great Transformation envisaged by the European Green Deal and the Next Generation EU requires the strengthening and systematization of the tools that favor, beyond the end of the health emergency, a lasting employability for vulnerable workers. The recent measures launched by our legislator analyzed in this contribution focus on the employment support policies and employment transitions to accompany the modernization of the country’s economic system towards a sustainable and digital economy. At the same time they are able to strengthening age management policies to adapt the professional skills of older workers and make them active subjects, or better resources, both for the individual organization and the labor marketI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


