Unions ask the ministry to bring the staffing level back above 20,000

The upcoming reform of the Ministry of Culture (MiC), which includes the important novelty of the creation of new autonomous museums (as many as seventeen, which will bring to 60 the number of institutes with autonomy), added to the’intent to intervene in the coming months with further changes to the central structure of the Dicastero, “impose the resolution of some critical issues that threaten to decisively undermine the operation and administrative continuity of our offices,” the unions point out.

The Cisl Fp and Flp unions sent a letter, signed by Giuseppe Nolè and Valentina Di Stefano (Cisl Fp) and Rinaldo Satolli (Flp), to MiC Chief of Staff Francesco Gilioli, MiC Secretary General Mario Turetta, all MiC Directors General and National Table Delegate Stefano Lanna. The first request of the unions is to accelerate without further delay the open competition procedures “in order to arrive at the contractualization in September of the AFAV staff, administrative assistants and officials, IT, giving fund to all the hiring faculties so as to run through the entire ranking list. At the same time, in addition to the conclusion by the end of the year of the competition of 518 technical officials, it is appropriate to plan additional competitions both through the hiring faculties ordered and through extraordinary allocations that we invite to consider, if necessary, in the next Budget Law.”

The changes in the organization of the ministry, the unions write, also require a restoration of the staffing level beyond 20,000. The novelties of the reform, Cisl Fp and Flp write, “lead us to request a further commitment from the political leadership considering it appropriate, if not indispensable, to increase the Ministry of Culture’s organic endowment by right, currently 18,854 units for the sector personnel, to which the 100 high professional staff and the managerial staff must be added. We have always been convinced that the progressive reductions in staffing levels made in the last decade have been detrimental to this Ministry, and therefore we are here to request that work be done, in the next Budget Law, to bring the Ministry’s staffing level back above 20,000, based on the needs that will be identified for the proper functioning of both the new museum structures and the new set-up in the MiC central offices that is being worked on.” There are, moreover, the unions point out, “numerous AFAVs hired in the Corsican months are still without pay due to the lengthy procedures by which the opening of the salary match and thus the payment is carried out,” and for this they urge "an intervention to resolve the issue in question

Finally, the unions conclude, “expecting that we hope for news soon on supplementary welfare initiatives for staff (health policy), we point out that it is necessary to provide an increase in resources for the Ministry’s staff, starting with an increase in the current 5 million allocated each year for the Enhancement Plan. It is clear that with this new organizational set-up these resources are not enough and it is necessary to increase them in order to give all our institutes the opportunity to propose adequate enhancement initiatives for European Heritage Days, Paper Sundays, Museum Night and all the other extraordinary openings provided for in the plan.”

Unions ask the ministry to bring the staffing level back above 20,000

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