Teachers in precarious employment at Italian schools

14.11.2017

Question for written answer P-007013-17
to the Commission
Rule 130
Giovanni La Via (PPE)

Directive 1999/70/EC provides that, after 36 months of service, those in precarious employment are entitled to receive open-ended contracts unless there are ‘objective grounds’ why they should not be given them.

At Italian schools, there are thousands of cases of qualified teachers who have been in precarious employment for more than three academic years, anxiously awaiting open-ended contracts.

In November 2014, the European Court of Justice delivered a judgment in which it granted an appeal against the renewal of fixed-term contracts, and it has ruled that after three annual contracts a teacher (or auxiliary technical administrative (ATA) staff) should be recruited for an indefinite period.

— Does the Commission consider Italy’s legislation on this subject to be contrary to the aforementioned European Directive?

— What measures will it take to induce Italy to adopt education policies that give those of our teachers who are in precarious employment a right that is laid down in Europe’s own legislation?