Confindustria, the employers' organization, and the CGIL, Cisl and Uil unions signed, on August 3, an agreement allowing unions to confirm the authenticity of resignations, a procedure introduced by the recent labor law reform aiming to avoid "blank resignation letters." (Ref. 120502)
On of the official goals in favor of female employment of the new labor reform (Act No. 92/2012, see our dispatch No. 120432), enforced on July 18, was to combat the phenomenon of “blank resignations” which many female employees have to sign along with their contract, allowing employers to make layoffs look like voluntary resignations when they get pregnant. Article 4 of the reform notably provides that, with the newly-introduced system for validating consensual resignations and terminations
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