On 25 January 2010, the social partners in the province of Milan in northern Italy submitted a joint report to regional and national institutions on labour market trends. The report, entitled /Work in Milan/ (Il lavoro a Milano (1.2Mb PDF) [1]), also contained data on the impact of the economic
The draft agreement [1] on renewing the industry-wide agreement for the metalworking sector, signed on 15 October 2009, marks an important development in Italian industrial relations. The settlement covers around 1.6 million workers and has traditionally represented the most important private sector
After the first measures to reform Italy’s public sector employment were introduced in June 2008 (*IT0807039I* [1]), the Minister for Public Administration and Innovation, Renato Brunetta, launched the second phase of his reform programme on 4 September 2008. This part of the government’s
The global financial crisis has exacerbated the already difficult situation in the Italian economy, and all forecasts for the coming months predict a further deterioration. According to the forecasts of the Confederation of Italian Industry (Confederazione Generale dell’Industria Italiana
The reform of Italy’s industrial relations system has been a central issue in the national debate on the competitiveness of the country’s economy for a number of years. Such concerns have grown and the need to reform the agreement of 23 July 1993 – which laid down the rules currently regulating
The National Council for Economic Affairs and Labour (Consiglio Nazionale dell’Economia e del Lavoro, Cnel [1]) collects and archives collective agreements signed at all levels in Italy. On 30 November 2007, Cnel [2] issued the results of the most recent updating of its archive on company-level
On 17 September 2007, a draft agreement [1] was finally signed on renewal of the pay and standard parts of the insurance workers’ collective agreement [2] for the period 2006–2009. Covering about 40,000 workers and 240 insurance companies, the agreement was signed after 18 months of talks and three
A meeting convened on 22 March 2007 by the President of the Council of Ministers, Romano Prodi, initiated talks between the government and the social partners on some of the main measures which the centre-left majority intends to introduce over the next few months. These measures aim to boost Italy
The metalworking company Metalcam SpA has its headquarters in Valcamonica in northern Italy and operates in the forging industry. Founded in 1907, it now belongs to the Carlo Tassara SpA group, whose Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is Roman Zaleski – a financier and shareholder in numerous large
Since the mid 1980s, close attention has been paid to the emergence of certain work practices which differ markedly from the traditional specialised and hierarchical Taylorist-Fordist model. In recent years, attention has focused mostly on the numerical flexibility [1] sought by companies in order