On 11 January, Italy's Constitutional Court admitted two out of the three referenda that the central union body the Cgil had put forward, which aim to revise a number of the key measures in the country’s recent labor reforms. The court however did not give the green light to the referendum proposal that would have had maximum impact, namely that which aimed to do away with the Jobs Act provisions on individual redundancies. The other two approved referenda addressing the ‘voucher’ payment system and guarantees to sub-contracting workers will take place between mid April and mid June 2017.
The Cgil garnered 3.3 million citizens’ signatures in order to propose these three referenda points which aimed at re-establishing more protection for workers by doing away with some of the flexibility measures that had been recently adopted and in particular as part of the Jobs Act. However the union body failed to get its key referendum admitted, namely that which would have done away with individual redundancy procedures for those employed after March 2015.
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