Workers employed by private firms and associations in Naples' 118 emergency service say they have more than ten years of experience and now risk losing their posts, according to Il Mattino.
The dispute concerns Regione Campania's move to bring the 118 service in-house. According to Il Mattino, the change would not automatically transfer all staff currently employed through contractors and associations to public employment.
About 70 autisti-soccorritori would be at risk in the shift from contracted management to public management, Il Mattino reported. The figure comes from the article and has no accompanying staff list or public confirmation from the health authority.
The workers have called a sit-in for 9am on 16 November outside the Regione Campania headquarters at Santa Lucia.
The dispute has already included three pickets and an institutional meeting on 13 November, according to the reporting. That meeting involved the Prefettura, Asl Napoli 1 Centro, contracting firms, associations and unions.
Workers and union representatives say they could not adequately present their concerns about jobs at that meeting. They have filed a request for access to the documents and are seeking the written record of the discussion. The official minutes of the 13 November meeting were not available in the material reviewed.
Their main request is the urgent convening of a new roundtable with the Prefettura, the Asl, associations, firms and worker representatives, to examine employment safeguards. What selection, transfer or stabilisation procedure would apply to contractor staff remains unclear.
The Prefettura in Naples has previously used multi-party tables involving the Asl, inspection bodies, employers and unions to address labour and safety issues.
