On May 20, 1970, the Chamber of Deputies definitively approved law 300, which went down in history as the Workers' Statute, a project initiated by the Socialist Labor Minister Brodolini and concluded by the Christian Democrat minister Donat Cattin with…
The company controlled by the Municipality of Rome led by Grillina has renewed the company supplement by restoring article 18 in the version prior to the Jobs Act - Camusso rejoices, but the industrial association threatens to expel the company.
Remote comparison between the secretary of the Democratic Party and the leader of the progressive field who launches "Together" with Bersani and D'Alema - Renzi: "Outside the Democratic Party there is the defeat of the left: there are those who try to rewrite the past but we we write…
Presented to the Labor Committee of the Chamber a bill by the splinters of the Democratic Party to reinstate article 18 on layoffs in private companies.
Among the main innovations is the new Consolidated Act on public employment, accompanied by the revision of the evaluation system - From the council of ministers green light also to the corrective decree to the procurement code.
The news of the day in Italy is certainly the decision of the Consulta which declared the referendum on Article 18 inadmissible - Then there is the health problem of Prime Minister Gentiloni, who has fortunately returned, and Trump's first press conference, in…
The Gentiloni government can breathe a sigh of relief: it won't be necessary to go to elections in the spring
The president of the Labor Agency (Anpal), Maurizio Del Conte, former consultant to Renzi on the Jobs Act, is convinced that there have been "abuses" on vouchers and hopes for a return to the origins of the institution which had the merit of making to emerge…
If the new provisions of the Jobs Act, and in particular the abolition of article 18, were extended to the public administration, according to a study by the Fondazione Studi of the National Council of Labor Consultants, they would amount to one billion.
The Council of Ministers has approved the first two implementing decrees of the Jobs Act on contracts with increasing protection and on Naspi - Renzi: we have attacked the precariousness and now "there are no more excuses for hiring" - Liberalisation, Guidi:…
Apart from the ideological fever that thwarted its debut, the new employment contract with increasing protections surpasses article 18 and introduces more flexibility into the labor market by breaking the taboo of reintegration, which will only apply in…
The permanent contract is born with increasing protections in relation to the length of service - In all the contractual forms will be reduced from over 40 to 4/5 - Amendments to article 18 (dismissal) and article 13 (demolition) of the Statute of the workers…
With the final approval of the Senate, the Jobs Act which reforms the labor market is law - After 40 years the Workers' Statute changes and the controversial art is superseded. 18 - Only in the case of discriminatory dismissals or…
The Fiom secretary considers Renzi's behavior on article 18 worse than that of Berlusconi - Perhaps the prime minister had some reason to wonder where the unions were, which today do not spare him strikes against, at the time in…
The Government has presented the amendment to the Jobs Act to the House - The return of the post will be limited to "null and discriminatory dismissals and specific cases of unjustified disciplinary dismissal" - For economic dismissals, however, the only option envisaged is…
Sacconi closes the controversy opened yesterday and Alfano assures: "A very close agreement" - Padoan: "The will of the government and Renzi to go ahead is iron".
The compromise reached on article 18 provides for the return of the right to reinstatement for unjustified dismissals of a disciplinary nature.
The idea of work as property, wages as an "independent variable", the management of the labor market entrusted only to the State: this is what hinders the Jobs Act. The reform must be accompanied by active management of work, synergy is essential…
Despite the quarrels within the Democratic Party, the left should be recognized more than the center-right on the overall reorganization of labor relations contained in the new text, because it puts the permanent contract back at the center of the labor market: the one…
Article 18 has become the emblem of a social and economic system surpassed by history and by the balance of power resulting from globalisation: the defense made by the rearguards of the Democratic Party and the trade unions is only the desperate attempt to…
The Premier after the meeting with the unions on the Jobs Act and the Stability law: "Points of understanding, new summit on 27 October" - Camusso: "CGIL against intervention on article 18, strike on 25 October" - More conciliatory with the Cisl government…
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi gives a boost to the reform of the labor market: he asks Parliament for confidence in the enabling law on the Jobs Act despite the protests of the minority of the Democratic Party and this morning he meets the unions and the…
The president of Confindustria issues a double warning to the prime minister and from Naples rejects the intervention on the severance pay: "Our answer is no. From what has been understood so far, benefits only for the tax authorities". And on article 18, in view of the amendment that…
SPEAKS NICOLA ROSSI, economist and former senator of the Democratic Party - "It is not by increasing public spending that Italy can relaunch internal demand and growth: if we did so, the markets would not follow us - More flexibility if we give in…
As promised to the Pd leadership, Prime Minister Renzi will meet for the first time on Tuesday the unions with whom he will discuss the reform of the labor market but also the three points on which he intends to press them: law on representation, wages...
Renzi proposes the theme of article 18 for political reasons that have to do with the Democratic Party, not with the economic problems of Italy today which require the relaunch of demand rather than reforms - What does it mean to leave free…
Only a shock, such as the one proposed by Renzi on the labor market, can induce the countries of Northern Europe to grant us more budgetary flexibility - Even more so than article 18, the profound changes on company representation and bargaining can…
Matteo Renzi wins the battle on Article 18 by a very large majority in the Democratic Party leadership, which approves his line with 130 yes, 20 no and 11 abstentions - But the real test by fire will be in Parliament where the minority,…
Renzi's meeting at the Quirinale before the long-awaited leadership of the Democratic Party - The premier and secretary of the Democratic Party does not give up on overcoming art. 18 on layoffs but counterattacks by proposing the overcoming of the contracts of precarious workers (from cococo to cocopro), support…
The Bersan minority is determined to give battle but Renzi has no intention of watering down the reform of the labor market and keeps going straight, having the numbers on his side - The battle is over the reinstatement - But the real showdown…
The heated debate on Article 18 of the Workers' Statute often refers to the German model for work - In Germany union co-management slows down redundancies but, when these become inevitable, reinstatement occurs very rarely - In 97 percent…
Matteo Renzi, on a visit to Chrysler in Auburn Hills in the USA, told Marchionne: "Italy must do it as the 15 employees of this factory did it" - And again: "If reinstatement is a constitutional obligation because the…
The Premier from New York: "Change means avoiding the possibility that a judge decides whether or not a person can change his or her job" - Camusso threatens a general strike, but opens up to proposals from the left Pd - Duro Marchionne:…
The reinstatement envisaged by article 18 of the Workers' Statute, "far from canceling the injustice of discriminatory dismissals", against which the Constitution and the Civil Code apply, "has often given political coverage to legitimate dismissals with the risk of vulnerating irrevocably the…
Unequivocal position taken by the President of the Republic who calls for changes to the rules of the labor market while hoping for dialogue - But his speech definitely displaces the left-wing conservatives, whether they nestle in the unions or…
The history of Article 18 of the Workers' Statute is paradoxical and changes over time by reversing the roles of the social partners: on 4 June 1985, the CGIL, CISL and UIL voted for a document in the CNEL general assembly which excluded the obligation to reinstate …
To overcome the opposition of the left Pd and the trade unions to the abolition of article 18, the Government plans to introduce a new criterion: reduce the incentives for companies that fire workers in the first phase of the contract with increasing protections - But the doubt remains: What…
The age-old duel over the fateful article 18 of the Workers' Statute remains on but the numbers are merciless and greatly reduce its scope: only half of the 18 million employees enjoy the protection of article 18 and only 20%…
The secretary of the CGIL thunders against the Prime Minister and his Jobs act: "It seems to me that the Premier has an idea which is that of extreme liberal policies, or rather that the reduction of workers' conditions is the instrument…
On the website www.passodopopasso.italia.it, the Government will indicate day by day the progress made in implementing the program for the next "thousand days", until the end of the legislature - Renzi: "No reshuffle in sight" - "On the 80 euro we do not go back" -…
In an interview with Millennium on Rai 3, the prime minister underlined that "the workers' statute needs to be rewritten" but underlining that "article 18 is only a symbol, an ideological totem" - To rewrite the statute "let's think instead of the girl from…
The mayor of Florence should present the "Plan for work" by the end of January, on the basis of the Boeri-Garibaldi model - For flexible workers, the project provides for the extension of protections (from maternity to sickness), while those who lose their …
"Renzi's proposal (on the abolition of article 18 for new hires) goes in the right direction, but from my point of view, it is not enough" - These are the words of the president of Confindustria, Giorgio Squinzi, on the sidelines of the conference of the Middle…
The Court of Milan applies the Fornero reform and guarantees only financial compensation to the fired employee - The worker was fired after the company had lost the contract where the employee was employed.
The senator of the Democratic Party at a conference organized with the LabLaw studio: "The margin of discretion left to the judges is not wide at all" - In the event of dismissal for economic reasons, employers will have difficulty proving a…
FACTSHEET - All the news on the labor reform that has become law: dismissals and article 18, project contracts and VAT numbers, apprenticeships and internships, ASPI and basic wages - Confindustria, Squinzi: "A revision is needed" - Fornero: "Available at …
Tomorrow union protests promise to be less disruptive on the railways following the reverse of the Ursa - The blockade will mainly affect trains, planes, public transport, and even the naval sector - The only one excluded from the strike will be Emilia Romagna, which has recently been hit …
The Government has disappointed the expectations of companies and international investors in terms of exit flexibility - The taboo of the intangibility of the reinstatement sanction has not yet been broken: for the Italian judges, the behavior of workers will not be…
UP AND DOWN - Alberto Bombassei, owner of Brembo and vice president of Confindustria, did not like the critical position supported by the outgoing president of the industrialists Emma Marcegaglia towards the Monti government on the reform of the labor market: "We have to ask ourselves if…
For the CEO of Fiat "the challenge for the country is much more complex than Article 18 and it is the challenge for competitiveness: let's not joke about it, we are playing for the future" - And again: "Mario Monti is the only one in…
The reform overcomes the taboo of the Workers' Statute but is affected by the compromise between opposing sides which limits its effectiveness - In the text (IN THE ENTIRE DDL ANNEX) there are many appreciable rules but the unknown factor remains on the role of judges ...
The Premier from Naples: "Companies are dissatisfied because they wanted the word reinstatement to disappear altogether. The unions feel struck by the fact that economic dismissal is now more open. But they will understand" - Meanwhile, the sting on tickets arrives...
The premier speaks of the labor reform as a historic turning point for growth - Surely of the reforms launched so far by his government it has been the most painful and only the intervention of the three major parties in the summit of…
Three-hour night summit between Monti, Fornero, Alfano, Bersani and Casini - Berlusconi for electoral reasons has forced his followers not to defend the amendment to article 18 to the bitter end - In return for the PDL: the transformation into contracts is more gradual…
INTERVENTION BY GIANFRANCO BORGHINI - The government reform project does not trample on inalienable individual rights or erase principles of freedom but, more pragmatically, seeks to reform a labor market that does not work and which excludes large masses of young people…
INTERVIEW WITH EMMA BONINO - According to the radical senator, it would be a real disaster to interrupt the Monti government before the end of the term and cause early elections - The labor reform is positive: it's not worth focusing on article 18 -…
From Tokyo, the premier warns: "After the elections, governments with a political composition will return" - Italy's appeal for the markets depends on the labor reform - The recession will not affect economic policy choices.
After the publication of the motivations of the Court of Appeal of Potenza for the reinstatement of the three fired employees in Melfi, the CEO of Lingotto declared that the sentence will not be enough to make him leave the country - On article 18 he declares: "It is in the hands…
The warning was issued by the Employment Commissioner's spokeswoman: "Italy is responsible for the rapid approval of an effective reform of the labor market".
Susanna Camusso spoke about the reform of the labor market stating that "the country is serene, because Parliament remains sovereign" - The crux is the reintroduction of reinstatement in dismissals for economic reasons - "Take steps forward, but on…
GIULIO SAPELLI'S OPINION - The relationship between labor reform and employment must be debunked - Flexsecurity remains distant - Fornero re-read Bruno Contini and let's not forget the lesson of Giugni and Mortillaro - Botched solution on layoffs and…
The Minister of Public Administration explained, in an open letter to Il Messaggero, the reasons that make the application of article 18 to state employees misleading - ''A piece of Italy asks to hit public workers as if there were accounts to settle ,…
The President of the Republic defends Minister Fornero's reform, convinced that it will not result in easy layoffs - "Work is put at risk by the crisis affecting businesses".
Today a general text to the Council of Ministers - Towards the enabling law - Monti: we will avoid abuses - Fornero: Parliament will read the text: it will be able to amend it or send us home because this is democracy - The Pd yes…
At the end of another day of negotiations with the social partners, the prime minister tries to reassure - But Fornero assures that "the Government is not going backwards on article 18. If anything, it is taking steps forward" - The minister has…
Bersani complains that the path of the German model has not been followed, which provides for the judge to decide on the dismissals - And on "Unit" there is also the hypothesis that there is a maneuver to split the Democratic Party to favour…
The shameful writing appeared on the shirt of a demonstrator in front of Palazzo Chigi photographed with the secretary of the Italian Communists - The reason for the protest was the reform of article 18 - Diliberto's apologies: "It is clear that not…