Deregulation and Labour Law in Italy

TABLE OF CONTENTS: I. Deregulation and Labour Law: an Historic-Conceptual Frame of Reference. – II. Deregulation and Labour Law in Italy: the New Legal Framework. – III. The Abolishment of the State’s Monopoly in Employment Services and the Legalisation of Temporary Work through an Agency in Italy, between Experimentation and Social Concertation. – 1. Agencies Authorised to Supply Temporary Labour Services. – 2. The Contract for the Supply of Temporary Workers. – 3. The Contract Between the Worker and the Agency. – 4. The Legal Statute of Temporary Workers. – IV. Deregulation and Reform of Collective Labour Relations. – V. Evaluation of Current Deregulation (Driving Forces of Deregulation). – VI. The Role of Labour Law in the 21st Century: Do We Need a New Concept of Labour Law? – References.