Do the new rules on dismissals provided for by the decrees implementing the Jobs Act also apply to public employees or not?. Pietro Ichino, renowned labor law expert and speaker in the Senate on the law for Civic Choice, has no doubts: “Of course – he claims – that the new rules will also apply to public employees. So much so that, almost at the last moment, the rule which expressly provided for its exclusion was cancelled”.
"The Consolidated Law on public employment - adds Ichino - establishes that, with the exception of recruitment and promotion matters, which are subject to the constitutional principle of competition, for every other aspect the public employment relationship is subject to the same rules that apply in the private sector".
The Minister of Public Administration, Marianna Madia, thinks differently, according to which public employees are excluded from the provisions of the Jobs Act on dismissals because they enter by competition and therefore follow different rules.
But Ichino replies: “Sometimes even the ministers make mistakes because competition does not mean irremovability. And those who wanted the express exclusion of civil servants, such as the left-wing minority of the Democratic Party and probably someone within the ministerial structures, are wrong. They don't realize that the contract with increasing protections is the only possible solution to the problem of precariousness, even in the public sector, because precariousness is the other side, structurally inevitable, of the irremovability of permanent workers"
