Italy : older workers will be allowed to work part-time to make space for youngsters

The budget draft law for 2007 contains a measure for employment which is quite suprising : a " pact of solidarity " between generations, which will enable workers over 55 years old to work part time instead of full time in exchange for the appointment of a young job seeker - part-time also - on the same position. (Ref. 070018)
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Article n.1160 of the budget law is rather short ” in order to promote the creation of new jobs and to reduce increase the employment rate of workers older than 55, an agreement of solidarity between generations is adopted. The latter provides for, on a voluntary basis, the transformation into part-time contracts of full-time contracts for workers over 55. Next to this, young job-seekers (below 25 or below 29 if they have a masters’ degree) will be hired under fixed-term contracts, and thus com

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