Italy: Labor Minister publishes employee “participation code”

On Wednesday, July 7th, Minister for Labor Maurizio Sacconi sent the social partners the first draft of the “profit-sharing code,” an “open” document which will be improved and updated via their contribution and contribution from experts on the subject. The Minister promised to write this text after the joint statement was signed on December 9th by all the trade unions (except the CGIL, see our dispatch No. 091144), to serve as a basis for the follow-up of good practices and participative experiences that can “entail a cultural change” in industrial relations and for the identification of existing laws and collective agreements, “or other,” preventing, in Italy, the spread of profit-sharing as in other European countries.
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sed to write this text after the joint statement was signed on December 9th by all the trade unions (except the CGIL, see our dispatch No. 091144), to serve as a basis for the follow-up of good practices and participative experiences that can “entail a cultural change” in industrial relations and for the identification of existing laws and collective agreements, “or other,” preventing, in Italy, the spread of profit-sharing as in other European countries.


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