A “reform destined to impact up to the material constitution of the country.” This is how Minister of Labor Maurizio Sacconi presented, in his letter to the social partners, on Thursday, November 11th, his bill completing the government’s reform of Italian Labor Law. The aim is to get past Act No. 300/1970, the forty year old “Statute of Workers” which “slows down the energy of the production process and of labor organization” without giving workers “actual guarantees,” to adjust legislation to labor changes with a “modern protection system.” This way, to “encourage recruitment and a better match between what labor and companies need,” article 1 of the bill authorizes the government to promulgate, within 12 months following the enforcement of the Act, “one or several decree-laws” containing provisions for drafting a single regulation for labor: the “Statute of Works.”
On November 11th, the Minister of Labor presented his project to review the Labor Code, adding a condition to the adoption of the final text: a joint opinion from the social partners. This project authorizes the government to write down a “single text” on Labor Law in Italy, composed of a core of “untouchable” standards and “adjustable” standards via negotiation of the social partners. (Ref. 100802)
A “reform destined to impact up to the material constitution of the country.”
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