The Government presented this morning in the Labor Committee in the Senate an amendment agreed with the rapporteur and the majority which rewrites article 4 of the bill which contains the Jobs act. The most significant change concerns the "open-ended contract with increasing protection in relation to length of service” expected “for new hires”.
Undersecretary Teresa Bellanova explained that the protections and deadlines linked to this type of contract will be regulated by the Executive through the delegated decree.
The amendment presented today delegates the Government to issue within six months a "simplified organic text of the disciplines of contractual types and employment relationships" to "strengthen the opportunities for entry into the world of work by those who are looking for occupation".
Unlike the first version of the text, the contract with increasing protections will no longer be optional and will no longer only concern entry into the world of work, but also reintegration.
In addition to indicating the contract with increasing protections as the "normal" channel for open-ended contracts, the Government is delegated to carry out an analysis of "all existing contractual forms" to assess "the effective consistency with the employment fabric and with the context production", also in view of a "simplification of the same types of contracts".
Yesterday evening at Porta a Porta the Minister of the Treasury Pier Carlo Padoan said that labor reform "is a priority", but also that the goal is to "simplify" the market, therefore "article 18 becomes a non-problem. Today there are more than 40 contractual forms, we want to have only one or at most two contracts”. The reform should also include "remuneration linked to company levels and the revision of shock absorbers", concluded Padoan.
