Involuntary part-time: the bill that tries to contrast it

From opportunities to penalty. Thus the history of the part time in Italy, established in 1984 to allow above all to the women of reconcile better paid and care work In specific phases of life – like the birth of a child – but which has become a real for many in time economic cage. From which to get rid is very difficult, not to say impossible.

Not infrequently, in fact, the reduction of working hours – and therefore the salary – It is imposed And not chosen, in particular to the workers after the birth of the first child, who even keep the job (one in five leaves him forcibly) hardly manage to access or return to full time over time.

In these cases we speak of involuntary part-timea condition that, as underlined by the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein “condemns three million women to stay in a poor working condition and not to be able to go out”, and against which The Democratic Party presented a bill At first sign signing Susanna Camusso.

According to the CNEL-Istat report of 2025, 31.5% of women work part timeagainst 8.1% of men and Istat in his 2024 gender report, he announced that the involuntary part-time underwent 15.6% of employees, compared to 5.1% of employees.

Percentages that increase hand in hand with the growth of the number of children and translate into salaries that prevent economic independence momentary and future, given that “a part time worker reaches perhaps the eight thousand euros gross per year, does not even access the maturation of a contribution year and will have a very poor pension and a fine work never”, underlines Camusso.

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The PDL does not aim to abolish this contractual form but to make it back to the origins, or an individual and modifiable choice.

If a woman – but not only since part -time work is also imposed on many young people to the first jobs – decides in full autonomy to decrease the hours of paid employment to devote themselves to the care of children or other figures must be put in a position to do it in total serenity.

In the same way, however, This choice cannot be imposed as the only solution to keep the job, and must be considered reversiblein case of will to return to a full time.

At the center of the proposal of the Democratic Party, in line with that on maternity leave and mandatory and equal paternity, there is the desire to promote a real conciliation between profession and personal time and a new family idea where to bring home a full salary is only man, and to decrease the care of the care work, which today rests almost only on the shoulders of women.

For this reason, in the text we speak of the institution of precise times, of the limitation of extraordinary and of theabolition of elastic clauseswhich currently allow employers to modify the agreed times even a few hours’ notes.

In the document it is also put on white on white possibilityfor the woman who requires it, to return to a full time timetable After a part time period, coinciding almost always with the childhood of the children but in which most remain trapped until pension.

Another important piece is the obligation for companies that need to hire staff, of propose the extension of working hours to those who are employed part-timebefore starting the search for new workers.

There is no lack of chapter pensions. According to the Annual INPS report spread in these days, although women are 51% of pensioners, they only receive 44% of income. Mind the average pension of women is equal to 1,594.82 euros per month, that of men is 2,142.60, 34% more.

Among the main causes of this gap there is part-time. To reduce the disadvantage and allow the workers to pass a more serene length, the PDL provides that the minimum annual contribution is established in proportion to the actual time And that, therefore, those who work for a lower time verses a reduced minimum and the same can mature a profit useful for pension purposes.


Source: Vanity Fair

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