Battipaglia, “illegitimate” compensation: the Municipality in the storm

Managers who do not rotate, bonuses given for bland and anything but extraordinary objectives, salaries not due, compensation not due and incentives “in a shower”. Just some of the at least 24 critical issues that Biagio Giordano e Francesco Pampinellamanagers ofGesifip (General Inspectorate of Public Finance Inspection Services), rooted in the department of State general accounting office of the Ministry of Economy and Finance they found al Municipality of Battipaglia. A 92-page long report: this afternoon it will be the subject of a meeting called by the mayor Cecilia Frenchwhich asked the general secretary and managers to report on the substantial dossier, drawn up by ministerial officials following the outcome of the investigations conducted on site last summer, when they sifted through a voluminous pile of administrative documents relating to the five-year period between 2018 and 2022.

«Treasury damage»

On the upper floors of City palace they are certain they can undermine the inspectors’ findings step by step. Giordano and Pampinella, for their part, openly predict the feared treasury damage in at least two cases. «Such a practice – they write on page 76 – was considered to cause damage to the treasury by the accounting judiciary». Parallelism drawn in reference to 34.517 euro that between 2019 and 2022, for various reasons, the managers of the accounting sectors would have self-liquidated, without having previously defined the impact on performance pay during union consultation, as an incentive for the strengthening of the tax offices . A slice of those 301mila euro distributed among all employees involved in the recovery activities of theImu and of Department and which for inspectors resemble a mere “scattered” distribution, in the absence of a structuring of the project in terms of times, phases, personnel involved and result indicators. Sic et simpliciter. The potential is feared «fiscal responsibility» also in relation to 227 miles and passes euros of performance pay paid to those in charge of organizational positions on the basis of «evaluations concerning exclusively individual behavior, and not also the degree of achievement of objectives»