Hélène Martinelli

The 2025 budget has extended the period of parental leave in which private-sector employees receive 80% of their pay to three months, compared to two months in 2024. Optional parental leave lasts...

Italian banking group BPER announced in mid-January the creation of an ‘academy’, in partnership with the training group Digit’Ed, as it seeks to train its 20,000 employees on...

The employer organisations Aica and Federturismo Confindustria and the trade unions Filcams-Cgil, Fisascat-Cisl and Uiltucs penned a deal on 21 December to renew the national collective agreement...

Italy's fourth-largest banking group has signed a series of agreements with its trade unions covering three main areas: generational renewal through 1,100 voluntary early retirements and 1,013 new...

From 1 January, an independent authority will be responsible for defending the rights of disabled people at work in Italy. It has been set up by a decree-law, which also defines the concept of...

On 6 December, 24 employers' organisations in the freight transport, logistics and parcel shipping sectors and the trade unions Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti signed a new national...

The decree issued by the Ministry of Labour on 5 December launched the third edition of the ‘new skills’ fund, which has been allocated over €730 million to fund in-company...

The reorganisation of Poste Italiane, Italy’s largest company in terms of the number of employees (around 120,000), is taking shape through a series of agreements signed on 27 November with...

Employers’ organisation Confindustria intends to harness public and private partnerships to launch a major housing construction and repurposing plan with the aim of addressing, at least in...

On 13 November, the employers’ organisation Confindustria and the Federmanager association signed an agreement renewing the national collective agreement (CCN) for managers in industry...

The agreement signed on 5 November between Enel and the unions includes a number of advances. From March 2025, new paid non-holiday leave entitlements will be introduced: one day (which may be...

Advances on work-life balance, enhanced training and industrial relations, a pay rise of €200 over three years: these are the main new features of the agreement to renew the collective agreement...