Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-002676/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Giuseppe Antoci (The Left)
Sicily is faced with a serious social welfare problem concerning temporary and former temporary workers in the island’s public administration.
As pointed out by the Regional Committee of the National Social Security Institute (INPS), around 9 000 of these workers are destined to receive social welfare payouts that are ‘bordering on the breadline’[1].
They are said to be receiving pensions that are totally insufficient to meet the demands of everyday living, especially with the rise in the cost of living[2].
This problem calls for immediate action, since around one thousand of these workers have just retired and are receiving payments of just EUR 600 per month, despite having worked for at least 35 years[3].
The reason for this unacceptable situation lies in the tendency for public administrations (municipal, provincial and regional councils and publicly-owned companies) to resort to temporary and intermittent, fixed-term and part-time contracts. For the workers involved, these types of contract lead to piecemeal careers, low wages and insufficient contribution payments. As a corollary of this, they then receive equally inappropriate pensions.
Can the Commission state whether it is aware of this unacceptable social welfare treatment of public servants who have had to work in precarious contractual conditions, how it views this situation and how it might intervene?
Submitted: 1.7.2025
- [1] https://tg24.sky.it/economia/2025/06/06/pensioni-precari-pa-sicilia-inps?card=5.
- [2] https://www.palermotoday.it/cronaca/lavoratori-ex-precari-regione-enti-locali-cisl-fp-sicilia.html.
- [3] https://palermo.gds.it/articoli/politica/2025/06/04/le-pensioni-povere-degli-ex-precari-il-comitato-inps-sicilia-intervengano-politica-e-sindacati-434bb156-a3cf-407a-a0cb-b3e467ecd0e5/.