BUSINESS
LavoroChi tells him to entrepreneurs, desperate for anything that can make their companies competitive solution to the crisis which, since January, will measure the stress in the workplace for their employees? And, in the case, also do psychological studies? “So Cesare Fumagalli, Secretary General of Confartigianato said the legislation yet another task from Europe against the companies, the requirement from 1 January 2011, to measure the risk from work-related stress.
“The European Union – said Fumagalli – is increasingly liberal and permissive in opening the EU market to companies outside the EU and the increasingly rigid and oppressive towards European companies forced to comply with an increasing number of rules and assessment Work-related stress – he stressed – is another obstacle for the activities of small businesses that do not have a business organization and personnel that can manage this additional requirement. Thus, despite the good intentions that just the ‘Europe has declared the SBA, small businesses – he added – the goal of simplifying legislation leaves more and more. Next to this step, you must create an instrument to measure the stress of red tape for entrepreneurs. “
“We do not discuss the efforts to ensure the safety and health of workers. But – Fumagalli pointed out – as are the fundamental principles enshrined in the Small Business Act to reduce the administrative burden on small businesses and to support potential development of SMEs. To avoid repeating the experience of other measures unnecessarily complex, as the Sistri, Confartigianato – reiterated the Secretary-General – urges simplified procedures for the implementation of the provisions on work-related stress to businesses employing up to 10 employees. It committed the Government and Parliament to engage the efforts of the European Union on the objectives of growth and development, not on the measurement of work stress.