He has been without any support for 5 months after being fired due to incapacity. The school union has launched a fundraiser to support her colleague
Dismissed from school after being judged permanently unfit for work. Since October she has no longer had her salary and is still waiting for her pension. Anna Vitiello, 55 years old, suffering from cancer, asked for help from the CUB Scuola Università Ricerca di Torino union.
For 5 months without salary and without pension
The teacher originally from Torre del Greco has been suffering from cancer since 2007, when she was diagnosed with her first breast cancer. She arrived in Piedmont ten years ago with her three daughters as a high school physical education teacher. You taught in Oulx, Osasco and Moncalieri and then took up a role three years ago at the Primo Levi institute in Turin. Today she is hospitalized at the Carignano Hospice. The cancer she was living with is now advanced. “In December 2022 the illness no longer allowed me to do all the hours of service, so I started the illness. Subsequently I asked for the collegial visit to be able to request the pension for incapacity for work” Anna declares. “On 31 August 2023 the contract at Bosso Monti expires and I return to Primo Levi, the school I belong to, which starts the dismissal 10 days after receiving the report from the medical commission. It was October 18, 2023.”
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“In my opinion, incapacity is not a just cause for dismissal, furthermore cancer patients are well protected on the issue and finally they fired me in a period in which I was still on sick leave” says the woman. “I don’t know how to go on anymore. The little money I had has run out and I’m filling up with debt. The severance pay will arrive in October, I know this, but everything is silent about the pension.”
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Situation of inefficiency and inhumanity
“An unacceptable situation resulting from inefficiency and inhumanity, from a blind and deaf bureaucracy in the face of a case of this gravity” comments Cosimo Scarinzi, CUB Sur national coordinator who is following the case and who has launched a fundraiser to support his colleague . “I don’t want to leave this legacy of problems to my daughters, I don’t think I have much time available” explains the teacher. Meanwhile, the Mef central offices are working to carry out all the necessary investigations and reconstruct the story of the teacher who affected everyone, especially from the human side.