There are only 6,046 in all of Italy, plus perhaps 1000 in 2021 (data at the end of 2019, without the recent exits from work for 100) divided into labor inspectors, INPS, Inail. Born in 2017 to rationalize the galaxy of inspectors, divided between INPS, INAIL and the ministry, the National Labor Inspectorate, was to become the sole agency for inspections. It gathered the inspectors of the territorial labor directorates and was to serve as a central coordination point for all INPS and INAIL inspectors.
A further critical element, which has also led to a bleeding of inspection staff over the last few years, is the imbalance between the required professionalism and the salary paid: for example, on average a labor inspector (ordinary or technical) receives an equal monthly salary 1,500-1,600 euros, plus an ancillary salary that can reach up to 3,000 euros gross per year.
This creates a significant wage gap with the supervisory inspectors of INPS and Inail, who are correctly recognized by the supplementary contracting an indemnity – by virtue of the responsibilities deriving from the activity carried out and an average higher ancillary salary, for greater availability. of funds of the institution. But the road is still long, if not blocked.
Meanwhile, the databases of the various administrations are still not communicating. The number of inspectors continues to drop because in many offices, Quota 100 has reduced administrative staff, so whoever has to check on the territory, remains in the office to cover the holes. And the fight against Covid has entailed and still involves for labor inspectors, a frantic surplus of work given by the small number of people, by the chase of circular decrees and explanatory notes and by the assignment of new skills in the field of checks Covid 19 despite not wanting to burden companies in such a particular moment of crisis due to the forced closure of activities.
The activities of the inspectors and inspectors have been extraordinarily intensified both for health protection and for the activities of assessment and administrative accounting verification relating to the macro sectors: agriculture, construction, transport logistics, manufacturing activities, wholesale and retail trade. , rental travel agencies business support services, business services.
Basically, prevention, irregularity and the fight against illegal work, fraud relating to income support measures, etc. fraudulent public resources; and at the same time then check the truthful collection of the new premiums in force since January 2019 for the verification of the risk with detailed reports of the inspections carried out. It is unimaginable that with the small number of inspectors and inspectors it is possible to control the reports of intervention in the sectors that have not suffered interruptions of activities, of companies operating in derogation of the restrictive measures for the covid,
In addition to this enormous work, there is the indicator of the contribution protections, the single-person conciliation, the assessment warnings, the timeliness of urgent services to users and obviously information, prevention and promotion. The guidelines provide for a constant continuous unceasing monitoring on the territory of common relations with the institutions and the social partners and operational intervention written on paper but impossible to carry out concretely due to the quantity of formalities required of these women men guarantors of the regularity of the work and above all, they are asked to comply with the operational performance indicators for the user services and supervision process.
Three years after the birth of the Inl, therefore, there are still many knots to be resolved and many (too many) open questions. The basic idea that led to the creation of the INL moves along two lines, both of which have remained a dead letter: the simplification and rationalization of supervisory activities, which should not only involve the creation of a new body in charge but also – or perhaps first of all – by a rewriting of the rules on the subject, so as to hopefully arrive at an approximation of the procedures, if their homogenization is really not possible; the creation of a network that sees several subjects involved under a single direction – in line with what happens in the most advanced European countries, where the Italian fragmentation of skills does not exist -, so as to have an orchestra in which everyone plays their own part of the score, but all are directed by a single conductor. In a pandemic situation that is no longer just a Covid emergency, these workers must be supported with new hires and active policies.
