Italy: Cisl and Uil union confederations get closer

The Cisl and Uil’s confederal secretariats met on May 5th for “joint confrontation on the most important themes of the labor world, with an economic situation characterized by recovery that goes too slowly to impact on employment and youth unemployment increasingly frightening.”  In a joint press release, they assessed “the need to continue” union actions started in recent years to force the government to keep its promises “in terms of stable valance, economic growth and the revival of investments (into infrastructures, energy and southern Italy), and active employment policies.”
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“the need to continue” union actions started in recent years to force the government to keep its promises “in terms of stable valance, economic growth and the revival of investments (into infrastructures, energy and southern Italy), and active employment policies.”

Fiscal reform. Notably rejoicing with the tax credit for recruitments in southern Italy and with the apprenticeship reform, approved by the Council of Ministers on May 5th (see our dispatch No. 110314), the Cisl and Uil want “more d

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