The Free International University of Social Studies Guido Carli (Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali, Luiss [1]) of Rome is a private Italian university, from which a considerable number of people in managerial positions in Italy have graduated. Luiss is subsidised by the employer
On 19 February 2007, at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, representatives of the government and of the national and sectoral trade union organisations, along with the Managing Director of the Fiat group [1], Sergio Marchionne, signed an agreement which allowed the Fiat group to avail of
Each year, the Institute of Political, Economic and Social Studies (Istituto di Studi Politici, Economici e Sociali, Eurispes [1]), in cooperation with Telefono Azzurro, an association offering support to children and young people in distress, publish a report on childhood and adolescence in Italy.
Electrolux is a Swedish-based international corporation, which in the past years has taken over a large number of other household appliances companies, among the best-known of which are AEG, Zanussi, REX, Zoppas and McCulloch. The Electrolux group is the world’s largest manufacturer of household
On 26 August 2006, two major Italian banking groups, Banca Intesa [1] and Sanpaolo IMI [2], revealed plans to merge the companies (*IT0609029I* [3]). The new bank would become Italy’s largest bank and the seventh largest in Europe, with 13 million clients, about 6,200 bank branches and 100,000
At its meeting on 24 January 2007, the Council of Ministers approved the liberalisation measures proposed by the Minister for Economic Development, Pierluigi Bersani (*IT0607059I* [1]). Several of these measures will be applied in the form of a legislative bill with immediate effect, while others
On 12 January 2007, Italy’s three main trade union confederations – the General Confederation of Italian Workers (Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro, Cgil [1]), the Italian Confederation of Workers’ Trade Unions (Confederazione Italiana Sindacati Lavoratori, Cisl [2]) and the Union of
Of the 15 terrorists arrested on 13 February 2007, seven were members of the General Confederation of Italian Workers (Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro, Cgil [1]). Those arrested were active members of the Red Brigade (Brigate Rosse, BR [2]), a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group which made
In Italy, some 600,000 people are employed as domestic workers, the great majority of whom are non-EU nationals. This category of workers includes a large number of family members who are engaged in care-giving roles; domestic work also gives rise to irregular working arrangements carried out by non
In November 2004, a new national collective agreement was signed for Italy's 117,000 local public transport workers. As well as providing for a wage rise, the agreement regulates the use of new forms of employment in the sector and improves the pay position of new recruits.