eshold for unions calling for a strike, prior declaration of individual participation to the strike, sanctions for those violating standards and a possible obligation to carry out a “virtual” strike in some services: here are the key reforms the Minister of Labor presented to the social partners. Open to a regulation of the right to strike in essential public services but divided over several issues of this bill, the social partners should soon give a joint opinion. (Ref. 090153)
“The government
is determined to present to the Parliament a
regulation of the right to strike in public utility services, to adapt workers’
rights more efficiently with users’ rights” said Maurizio Sacconi, Minister of
Labor, when presenting his project to reform the right to strike in essential
public services during the first phase of consultation of the social partners,
on February 5.