Peter Ichino, one of the best Italian labor lawyers and former parliamentarian of the Democratic Party, is anything but a spirited person and is used to reasoning on reality, but reality says the opposite of what the secretary of the CGIL says, Maurizio Landini, to support the collection of signatures for the anti-Jobs Act referendum. Landini says that the Jobs Act's decree on layoffs “would have been a factor in increasing the precarious” but, Ichino argues in his Newsletter, “i INPS data they say that in the last 15 years the probability of being fired in Italy has remained substantially unchanged". But Landini also takes fireflies for lanterns on another side: that of working relationships. He claims that fixed-term contracts have increased, but this time it is Istat that denies it. The Institute of Statistics – Ichino recalls again – “informs us that those hired on permanent contracts have increased both in absolute value and as a percentage of the workforce and that fixed-term contracts have remained around one sixth of the total, in line with the EU average”. Among other things, the reform of dismissals introduced in the Jobs Act "has led - reports Ichino - to a halving of judicial disputes". Intellectual honesty would like Landini to take note of this, but we can be sure that this will not happen, because his entire campaign on the referendums does not have a trade union objective but an exclusively political one: that of running for the leadership of the alliance Pd-Five Stars when, in two years, he will have to leave the leadership of the company in accordance with the statute CGIL.
Jobs Act, Pietro Ichino does not give concessions to Landini: precarious employment has not increased and permanent contracts have grown
Landini claims that the Jobs Act has increased precariousness and fixed-term contracts but Pietro Ichino uses INPS and Istat data which say exactly the opposite of what the CGIL secretary says