Penalties for unlawfull dismissal in France and in Italy

This contribution sets out to study recent French and Italian legislation on redundancies, their monitoring and sanctions in the event of an improper motive. Between 2012 and 2017, these two legal systems were subject to major reforms which are now beginning to show their effects. In both systems, the justification for this change made by legislators was that it would make redundancies more “secure”. This study proves, besides the ambivalent nature of this term, that the goal of security has not been achieved for either party.