A draft bill enabling the government to completely overhaul the labor law and may also introduce a legal minimum wage is due to be presented before the Senate on September 18, 2014 with final approval set for before the end of the year and the complete revision of labor law expected for spring 2015. This bill represents the second pillar of Renzi’s government’s Job’s Act. In two separate interviews, the Premier Matteo Renzi and the Minister for Economic Development Federica Guidi caused controversy when they suggested the possibility of revising Article 18 of the Worker’s Statute which includes forcing employers to reinstate unfairly dismissed workers.
“Today’s workplace needs new regulations. More modern and diverse. During this overhaul everything nothing is ruled out,” stated the Minister for Economic Development, Federica Guidi in an interview on September 7, 2014 for the daily paper II Messaggero. The article stirred up the controversy surrounding Article 18 that had been on the front pages during August. This symbolic article obliges the reinstatement of unfairly dismissed workers and had been amended during the Monti government in 2012
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