Lombardy regional elections: candidates’ programs for work and businesses

The commitment, should she be elected, also concerns the introduction of “a clear and comprehensive discipline on the smart working and the worker’s right to disconnect, creating new connections with public services and the worker”, “tackling the falling birth rate phenomenon with targeted strategies”, “Studying a single regional allowance for children”, “Investing in professional training and retraining”, “team up and systematize the institutions of the industrial sector”. For businesses, given the times, Moratti wants “promote the energy independence of SMEs – store the energy produced and reuse it instead of reselling it at list price”but also push for one “digitalization and streamlining of the relationship between public administration and businesses” joined to “credit access support for micro and small businesses”. For young entrepreneurs also planned “specific training”.

Pierfrancesco Majorino with the centre-left and the 5 Star Movement

The candidate of the centre-left and of the M5s speak now Of equal opportunities “We need new initiatives to support female entrepreneurship” but also of promotion for innovation in Lombard enterprisesthanks to the increase “of public and private investments in research & development”carrying the groceries “from the current 1.3% to 3% of GDP”along with a new season “of public and private investments, favoring the transfer from universities to SMEs”. Also pay attention to innovative startupsthrough “the total reduction of Irap for the first 3 years of activity and the establishment of a regional co-investment fund that doubles the investments made by private investors”.

Looking at the example of Emilia Romagna Majorino wants to create, with the social partners and local authorities, “a great pact for work and the climate”centering “the work of young people by breaking the abuse in the use of internships”. How? Empowering “the apprenticeship, making it progressive, strengthening the national tax deduction provided for by the stability law and reducing the bureaucracy necessary for activation”increasing “state tax deductions for permanent hiring, especially if linked to innovation and digital transformation projects”.

And add measures “for prevent the abuse of fake internships and increase the minimum salary for internships to at least 800 euros per month”. Points also for self-employment, through an increase in “protection and opportunities in favor of freelancers and VAT numbersstarting from the access of professionals to continuous training”. In public calls for tenders Majorino aims “to the establishment of a minimum wage to protect the job”. To monitor the progress of the sector will be established “an observatory on wages in Lombardy, supporting the minimum wage and tackling wage inequality between genders”. Against the Neets will be implemented “an orientation system and the construction of a permanent catalog of short professional qualification courses for adult NEETs”.

Mara Ghidorzi for Popular Union

For the job, the candidate for the People’s Union in his program proposes “the issue of more restrictive directives on safety at work”strengthening “of the direct control of occupational safety in companies”And “tools to support income, fight against poverty and high bills” and of the “regulatory and financial tools to protect jobs in company crises”.

Ghidorzi wants “discourage relocations binding companies to repay any loans obtained” and empower “Public Employment Centres with elimination of the dowry system and accreditation of private agencies”in addition to a “20,000-place hiring plan starting from welfare, health, transport and occupational safety”. Among the points also what it plans to “subordinate the granting of contracts or loans to private individuals to the provision of a minimum wage of no less than 10 euros to be reassessed annually and to the strengthening of occupational safety controls” And “for the granting of loans to private individuals, give additional scores in case of reduction of working hours and the exclusion of atypical contractual forms other than permanent contracts”.