Rivers of words, so many beautiful promises. Was told that would come new opportunities and that he should not feel alone any longer. A warm blanket of solidarity for days, she had wrapped Isabella, marginalized from work to the threshold of 50 years because ill with multiple sclerosis. Was received in the department, and even the governor Sergio Chiamparino had picked up on his suffering who are indignant for what had happened. Because cases like his deserve justice, because you cannot lose your job just for having confessed to be a head to have health problems. But the promised funds never came.
There was only one contract at a time in more than two years of unemployment, and then the days follow one another equal to the other, trying not to give weight to the small signs of an inexorable disease, which, fortunately, moves slowly, allowing you to still do many things. But no more hope. “Words, just words…” says disconsolate, answering the question: “But then what happened?”. “They are always unemployed, here’s what happened. Things like these do not make you believe anything. sin, I will continue to live with my problems and I’ll make you a reason. But the bitterness is a lot of. Also not like me to keep by the State.”
it Was October of 2016 when Isabella had told a Republic of a dismissal inhuman, which occurred after 15 years of working in a nursery in the province of Turin, without ever having had any problems and without unexcused absences. The disease had been diagnosed in 2002, but had not given any problems for years, remaining a silent companion of life. Until an aggravation forced her home for a year. After which, inexorably, came the communication of the termination: two lines to say not to come back for his children. There was no more place in that asylum for her.
So he took pen and paper and had written to jet to Republic a letter in a calm manner, which was strong all the dignity of a disabled person, trampled upon by the cold laws of the world of work. “After the dismissal, wrote to Isabella – I turned to trade unions and lawyers, but I was told that you could not do anything because the dismissal was motivated by the overcoming of the period of time for absence due to illness. Once expired the year of the disease, that is, the employer has the right to the final decision of the dismissal without possibility of appeal”.
“I found myself with my degrees, the work experience gained, the threshold of 50 years of private right because the employer has rights that are worth more than my, more of those of a person with disabilities,” he wrote. “That letter had the purpose to underline the injustices suffered for having made “acting-out” – now explain to the woman struggling with the same despair, then, of how the disability is a problem that is in addition to those already present in the search for a new job. I drive the car, I have a brain that works at 100 per cent, but Italy is a country that tends to relegate the disabled in a single beam of people not visible to most”.
In the days following, to the letter, Isabella had been contacted, and comforted by the institutions. “One call came from the centre for the use to which they are enrolled – says Isabella – they offered me a job as a secretary in my area, and I was really happy. I was feeling good and I had the impression that the employer was satisfied so much that I also had a small renewal for a few months. But that experience ended once the expiry of the contract term. Since then there has been nothing more”.
“off camera statements of intent have remained a dead letter,” now explains Isabella. “In the past few days I have decided to write to the minister of labour Giovanna Pentenero to explain to her that after the promises had not happened anything. I also responded, telling me that I have to go through the center of employment, that is the channel. But I have not had phone calls. I look forward to still, even if I have no more expectations, only a great disappointment.” © Reproduction reserved

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