On 28–30 October, workers of the Fiat Group [1] took part in a ballot on the bargaining platform for the renewal of the group’s complementary agreement for the period 2009–2012. The trade unions involved include the Italian Federation of White and Blue-collar Metalworkers (Federazione Impiegati
In July 2008, the draft agreement for renewal of the national sectoral collective agreement (/contratto collettivo nazionale di lavoro/, CCNL) for workers in the retail and services sectors was signed by the General Confederation of Trade, Tourism, Services and SMEs (Confederazione generale del
The newly elected centre-right Minister of Labour, Health and Social Policy, Maurizio Sacconi, has chosen the route of the decree law to gain approval for the first measures on work introduced by the new coalition government led by Silvio Berlusconi. The provisions intended to ‘simplify’ the Italian
On 20 January 2008, the social partners in the metalworking sector signed the draft agreement [1] for renewal of the national industry-wide collective agreement. The draft agreement was reached through the mediation of the then Minister of Labour, Cesaro Damiano. On the trade union side, the
Some 914 employees of the telecommunications provider Vodafone Italia [1] – distributed among the company’s various regional operations – are to be affected by a business branch transfer, which was announced in September 2007. Through a referendum held in November 2007, the employees affected by the
The good economic performance of the Fiat Group [1] has prompted a decision by the company, formalised by the board of directors on 24 October 2007, to pay its employees an advance on future wage increases from October 2007 onwards. For the 11th consecutive quarter, Fiat has recorded an improvement
The renewal of the agreement for workers at the Italian ministries comes after 18 months of difficult negotiations between the trade unions and the government. The latter was represented by the Public Sector Bargaining Relations Agency (Agenzia per la Rappresentanza Negoziale delle Pubbliche
The measures set out in the 2007 finance act [1] (/legge finanziaria/) (*IT0610029I* [2]) are the result of a series of negotiations and legislative actions concerning the contractual positions of freelance workers (IT0501NU01 [3]), particularly those employed in call centres. The first of these
Since the merger forming the banking colossus Intesa Sanpaolo in August 2006 (IT0609029I [1]), Italian businesses have been waiting for the next move in the so-called ‘banking risiko game’. The official announcement made on 20 May 2007 of the merger of another two banking groups, UniCredit [2] and