The Port Labor Agency – as foreseen by article 17 of the law on ports – registers a further step forward, thus confirming what were the doubts about the process carried out in recent years for its establishment. Lack of qualified personnel for certain types of work and above all constant recourse to compensation for failure to start work for employees registered in the current Port Agency.
A sort of disguised welfare that the new Port System Authority wants to cancel, replaced by staff training and greater use of flexible working tools. In recent days the management committee approved the addendum after an in-depth study on the scheme of the new body had been started from Rome. The defects of the current system and the prospects are contained in this document from the body led by Paolo Piacenza: «The total inapplicability of the Gioia Tauro Port Agency Srl for the needs of the container terminal has precluded Mct from accessing temporary administration, due to the lack of workers with technical-professional qualifications suitable for the operation of complex quay and yard machines (Forklift Drivers / Straddle Carrier). Due to this distortion, Medcenter was forced to fully internalize its work requirements, increasing its direct staff to 1,365 employees.”
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