Description
The Intersectoral Fund of the Autonomous Province of Trento (abbreviated as Fondo di Solidarietà del Trentino) is a bilateral welfare instrument set up by an Interministerial Decree in 2016 by Confindustria Trento, Confcommercio Imprese per l'Italia Trentino, Confesercenti del Trentino, Associazione Albergatori ed Imprese Turistiche, Federazione Trentina della Cooperazione, Confprofessioni and CGIL del Trentino, CISL del Trentino and UIL del Trentino. The aim of the Solidarity Fund is to ensure employees of private employers, operating mainly in the province of Trento and regardless of the size of the company workforce, protection during the employment relationship in cases of reduction or suspension of work activity, for the causes provided for in ordinary or extraordinary wage integration.
The aim of the Trentino Solidarity Fund is also to ensure supplementary protection with respect to benefits linked to loss of employment; to provide extraordinary income support allowances recognised in the framework of redundancy schemes for workers who meet retirement requirements and to provide for the payment of social security contributions in the case of generational relay mechanisms. As a further area of competence, the Fund may contribute to the financing of training programmes for professional reconversion or retraining.
On 23 January this year, at the first meeting of the renewed Administrative Committee of the Trentino Solidarity Fund, strategic interventions were launched to support the production system and employment, in the direction of launching a new season for the Fund as an instrument for safeguarding and developing the Trentino labour market.
In particular, in the short term, two additional interventions can be activated by the companies belonging to the Fund, in addition to the requests for wage supplementation.
These interventions concern in particular
- supplementary benefits to the NASpI, beyond the ordinary period for seasonal workers and workers who have reached the age of 58 years;
- training programmes for professional reconversion or retraining, also in conjunction with the appropriate provincial, national or European Union funds.
The operating instructions will be set out in an INPS message, which is expected to be published shortly by March and which will provide detailed information on how employers can apply for the measures electronically, eliminating the need for experimental activations.
The sheet attached hereto contains the information currently available, pending the technical elements that will be contained in the INPS communication.
The social partners are requested to inform employers of this.
For any clarifications, the officials of the Labour Service are at your disposal: dott.ssa Paola Zalla (tel. 0461/494096) and dott. Paolo Maurina (tel. 0461/494017).