The national collective agreement between Italian NGOs and trade unions signed in Rome

The national collective agreement, signed as a pre-agreement on 24th April 2013 between the Association of the Italian NGOs and LINK 2007 – Cooperating in Network on the one hand and the Felsa-Cisl, Nidil-Cgil, Uil. Temp trade unions on the other hand, represent an important and innovative step to regulate job protection and security for employees with term employment contract, accordingly to the instructions of 92/2012 Law (Fornero Law) and to the will of balancing the different contracting forms contained in the Law.

The agreement, in action till December 31st 2016, will be evaluated by the NGO networks and their operators within July 31st 2013 and consequently definitely ratified. The Associations of the signatory NGOs and the trade unions will afterwards monitor the agreement through joint evaluation meetings.

Italian NGOs felt the need to conjointly examine, detail and regulate – and therefore give transparency to – term employment contracts for their personnel in Italy and abroad, who in the last ten years counted an average of 5.000 expatriates and 1.500 national collaborators per year.

In over 50 years of solidarity and international cooperation activities, Italian NGOs have been the channels through which more than 250.000 people have expressed their values, skills and engagement.

The majority of NGOs collaborators have been engaged in activities abroad, in the poorest countries, sharing NGOs motivation and values. In the last decades, professionalism and competences to respond to poverty fight programs have grown, as well as skills to build long lasting partnerships in several countries.

With this national collective agreement, NGOs intend to contribute to the wider third sector area, engaged in social issues.

ASSOCIATION OF THE ITALIAN NGOS AND LINK 2007 – COOPERATING IN NETWORK

FELSA-CISL – NIDIL-CGIL – UIL.TEMP

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