My Italy

Although Cuniberti's new battleship plan has not yet been approved by Admiral Yagir, it has at least been reflected in his mind. By then, the new battleship indicators may also be closer to this.

This is just a small trick that Cuniberti wouldn't normally use. If he wasn't a little obsessed with new battleships, he wouldn't do it.

As the king, Carlo did not know the news about the successful development of the 305mm naval gun.

Because there were more important things that caught his attention.

“This is the workers’ medical insurance regulations established by your government?”

Carlo put down the thick document in his hand and asked Prime Minister Antonio.

"Yes, Your Majesty, this is a bill that we are preparing to implement by referring to the social security regulations of our German counterparts and then taking into account the national conditions."

Prime Minister Antonio talked about the basic situation of the bill. The bill he talked to King Carlo was also Italy's first social security bill, workers' medical insurance regulations.

Regarding the formulation of this bill, it seems that the government has no choice but to make it.

You must know that although Italy's industrialization has been progressing smoothly in recent years, the large influx of people into the cities means that the jobs provided by Italian industry still cannot meet the demand. In general, there are more people and less work.

And the situation of more people and less work will lead to factory owners to endlessly exploit workers.

Although the Italian government has repeatedly demanded that factories must protect the interests of workers, overtime must be paid for overtime work, and injuries must be compensated. Although the Italian government's requirements are low enough, the greed for profits still makes the factory owners think about this.

Forcing employees to work overtime for free is just commonplace, and whoever doesn't agree will be fired directly. As for injuries sustained at work, just give them some money without caring about the consequences.

As for the dismissed employees who are not convinced and report it, this is a big pitfall. How can a weak individual be the opponent of those factory owners? The other party can have enough time to consume the energy of the dismissed employees. Then most people can't stand the consumption of time and energy and can only give up. Only a few with perseverance can persevere.

However, this does not necessarily lead to compensation from the factory owners. The reason is very simple. You are a lower-class person and he is an upper-class person. Paying you compensation is not to show his face. He would rather spend more money than do this. Concession, otherwise the factory workers have learned how to protect their face.

Well, this is a complete display of capitalist arrogance and rudeness, and most factory owners have this mentality. This unwillingness to bow to the working class has intensified the workers' dissatisfaction with the capitalists. This also led to the spread of many ideas among workers, some good and some bad, such as extremely dangerous anarchism being one of them.

These thoughts led to frequent worker riots and strikes. In 1899, for example, there were 241 large and small strikes, riots and other labor movements across Italy, including three armed uprisings. Most of these labor movements were resolved, or even if they were not resolved, solutions were sought.

The successive labor movements have made the government exhausted mentally and physically, and they also know the reasons for this result. Therefore, in order to appease the people and let them feel the dividends of economic development, it is urgent to protect the interests of the working class.

To this end, Prime Minister Antonio not only promoted the formulation of a workers' protection bill at the government level, but also pushed for the smooth passage of the bill in parliament among the parties.

One more thing to say here: apart from the ruling party, the National Socialist Party is the most enthusiastic about the bill. It not only supports the bill, but also mobilizes its members to take to the streets to promote it. It is even more enthusiastic about the bill than the ruling party. promotion work.

The National Socialist Party's enthusiasm may also have a lot to do with the composition of its members. In the past few years in the south, although the National Socialist Party has developed rapidly and has become the three major political parties in the south, a large part of the members of the National Socialist Party are from rural areas. The top leaders of the National Socialist Party were not satisfied with this. If they wanted to achieve a breakthrough in the cities, the working class would become one of their targets, and of course the petty bourgeoisie would not be spared either.

With the strong promotion of the government and the National Socialist Party, the first social security bill, the Workers' Medical Insurance Ordinance, was quickly passed in the parliament.

Although some people are unwilling to give in and say that this bill will increase the burden on factory owners, which will cause Italian products to lack competitiveness abroad, etc., these remarks are not enough to attract the attention of others, although it makes capitalists very happy. Not satisfied, but unfortunately he is not in charge of the current government.

"Will the government take any action next?"

Carlo quickly signed the bill and asked the Prime Minister about the government's next actions.

From the perspective of future generations, Carlo's workers' medical insurance regulations are very crude and ridiculous. For example, in terms of the payment ratio for medical insurance, factories only pay 30% and individuals have to pay 70%. In addition, several loopholes can be found in payment and other aspects.

But at least one thing is good, that is, Italy's social security system has been confirmed. It doesn’t matter if there are loopholes in bills and regulations, we just need to find and fix them.

"Your Majesty, the government will next set up a special labor and social security department to be responsible for supervising the implementation of this bill."

The Prime Minister’s words imply a lot of things. For example, first of all, the bill will be supervised by a special department. Of course, this also shows that the bill on workers’ medical insurance regulations is only the first step. There will definitely be other labor security-related things next. The bill must be implemented, otherwise things in this new department would be too simple, and pensions for the elderly would be about the same.

Carlo was of course very satisfied with the Prime Minister's words, but he still had a little doubt. “Has your government considered how much money is needed to promote social security?”

"If there is any consideration, our government has joined forces with Generali Insurance Company, National Insurance Company of Italy and Banco San Paolo in Turin to jointly implement this regulation."

That's right, how can this be used just by the promotion of government departments? Professionals still need to understand insurance better, and the government is responsible for supervision.

Of course, you can rely solely on insurance companies to promote it, but don’t forget that they are profit-making institutions, so government supervision is essential in this regard.

As for Carlo, he doesn’t know whether the social security system that the Prime Minister talks about as being business-oriented and supervised by the government can work. But no matter what, it's better to do it than not do it.

Although Italy's finances are not tight, some things must be done.