Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2009, published 99th ILC session (2010)

Social Policy (Basic Aims and Standards) Convention, 1962 (No. 117) - Italy (Ratification: 1966)

Article 2. Parts I and II of the Convention. Improvement of standards of living. The Committee notes the information contained in the Government’s report received in January 2009 as well as the comments submitted by the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL), which were forwarded to the Government in July 2009. The Government refers to the Green Paper on the future of the social model published in July 2008. The new welfare system envisaged under the Green Paper will place the focus on anticipating needs and on ensuring personalized protection measures over a person’s entire life span, thus contributing toward improving the quality of life of individuals, but also contemplating proactive conduct and responsibility on the part of the persons benefiting from those measures. The Committee notes the key role attributed under the new system for social services to the regions in the development and financing of social plans based on resources made available under the National Fund for Social Policies (FNSP). The Committee invites the Government to continue providing information in its next report so as to enable the Committee to satisfy itself that the “improvement of standards of living” is the principal objective of government programmes for economic growth and social inclusion (Article 2).

Part III. Migrant workers. The Committee notes that the issues raised by the CGIL in its comments mainly concern the situation of undocumented migrant workers in Italy, whereas Part III of the Convention concerns migration movements within the country. In this respect, the Committee refers to the comments concerning the Migrant Workers (Supplementary Provisions) Convention, 1975 (No. 143).