Italy: ‘Dignity decree law’ has been definitively adopted

On 09 August Italy’s parliament definitively ratified Prime Minister Conte’s government’s decree law that aims to curb precarious employment by rowing back on some of the Jobs Act’s key measures. The new text tightens regulations covering fixed term employment contracts and interim employment contracts, augments unfair dismissal compensation payments, and sanctions companies that outsource after having received state aid. All the employers’ organizations have fiercely criticized the new measure, which they claim will discourage investment and job creation. Unions have mixed views on a law that penalizes ‘protected’ forms of flexibility as opposed to other forms of precarious work.