New flexibility. The draft the Minister of Labor presented last week (see our dispatch No. 100145) was slightly amended. The signatories agree on “the value of organizational flexibility for family time” via the adjustment of working hours, “both in the interest of workers and of the company,” and on the need to encourage telework and reduced, flexible and contractually-agreed hours. They put local bargaining in charge of dividing working time on a weekly, monthly or yearly basis, “following market needs,” to adapt average and maximum working time to “different production requirements, reconciling them with the respect of people’s rights and demands.” Therefore, they commit to “value existing good flexibility and balance policies,” which will be defined within 3 months by the Equality Observatory, and convert them into different measures via another joint opinion which will serve as a reference for local collective agreements. One year after this joint opinion, the signatories will do a “joint check-up” of the level of dissemination of these practices and of the follow-up actions undertaken by the “leading cabin” introduced within the framework of the Italian 2020 program (see our dispatch No. 091117).
for local collective agreements. One year after this joint opinion, the signatories will do a “joint check-up” of the level of dissemination of these practices and of the follow-up actions undertaken by the “leading cabin” introduced within the framework of the Italian 2020 program (see our dispatch No. 091117).
Guidelines for collective bargaining. The guidelines for collective bargaining added to the joint opinion’s appendix contain, in addition to the measures already provided for in the
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