Concorso Rap, il Tribunale del lavoro di Palermo annulla il "bonus inoccupati" da venti punti: graduatoria tutta da rifare

The Labor Court of Palermo has reshuffled the cards of the competition announced by Rap for the hiring of 306 workers, accepting the appeal filed by a group of candidates. At the center of the legal dispute, handled by lawyers Francesco Leone and Simona Fell, was a criterion of the announcement deemed discriminatory: the awarding of as many as 20 additional points to those who had never signed a work contract before.

According to the labor judge, rewarding with such a high score those who have never worked, paradoxically penalizing those who already had experience in the field, appeared unreasonable and not in accordance with the principles of meritocracy that must govern public selection procedures. The appeal thus leveraged the contradictory nature of a system that, instead of valuing the skills acquired in the field, turned them into a competitive disadvantage.

The ruling established the illegitimacy of such a bonus, ordering a drastic solution: Rap must now proceed with the full recalculation of scores and the consequent reformulation of the ranking. The new list must remove the 20 points awarded to the beneficiaries of the contested criterion, an operation that could upend the top positions of the ranking and change the names of the winners of the competition. For the company that manages waste in Palermo, a mandatory review phase now opens to restore the correctness of the hiring procedure.