Italy: first employment agency managed by union

The Cisl is starting a pilot experience creating an employment agency in the city of Bolona and is thus becoming the first union to ever propose such an idea. After an experimentation phase, it intends to put an agency in all the organised union structures at the regional level as early as 2008. This is a new step for the confederation towards a "services union". (Ref. 070942)
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This is the first employment agency managed by a trade union. Presented during the national organisational conference (see our article No. 070928), the AgiLavoro agency will work in relation with other employment agencies and public services. It will take care of the integration of the unemployed and of young people searching for a first job but also of precarious, disabled and disadvantaged workers. For this initiative, the Cisl is relying on the law 30 and on the decrees 276/2003 which cancel

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