June 2025 popular referendum and management of election permits

News No. 13/2025

We hereby want to provide you with a summary of the questions that will be put to citizens in this Referendum on June 8 and 9, 2025, on labor and citizenship.

There are a total of five questions and they are all repeals, with the aim of amending or eliminating specific provisions of law currently in force.

The first question concerns the Increasing Protection Employment Contract - Discipline of Unlawful Dismissals: Repeal, with reinstatement of the possibility of reinstatement in the workplace for employees dismissed without just cause, overcoming the rules introduced by the Jobs Act, which only provided for economic compensation.

The text of the question is as follows: "Do you want the repeal of Legislative Decree No. 23 of March 4, 2015 (...) bearing: 'Provisions on open-ended employment contracts with increasing protections, implementing Law No. 183 of December 10, 2014, in its entirety?"

The question therefore proposes to return to the system prior to the Jobs Act, restoring the possibility for the court to order the reinstatement of a worker hired after March 7, 2015, in the case of dismissal without just cause or justified reason.

If approved, the referendum would result in the total repeal of Legislative Decree No. 23/2015, eliminating increasing protections and allowing the system of real protection, based on the judge's assessment and, in some cases, reinstatement of the dismissed worker in the workplace, to apply for all workers.

The second question concerns workers in small businesses, calling for eliminating the cap on compensation for wrongful dismissal, leaving more freedom to the judge in calculating compensation.

The text of the question is as follows: "Do you want the repeal of Article 8 of Law No. 604 of July 15, 1966, on "Regulations on individual dismissals," as replaced by Article 2, paragraph 3, of Law No. 108, limited to the words "between one", the words "and a maximum of 6" and the words "The maximum amount of the aforesaid indemnity may be increased up to 10 months' salary for the employee with seniority of more than ten years and up to 14 months' salary for the employee with seniority of more than twenty years, if employed by the employer who employs more than fifteen employees."?

If approved, the question would remove regulatory constraints on compensation, potentially increasing economic protections for those working at small employers in the event of unjustified dismissal.

The third question proposes the partial repeal of rules on the affixing of time limits to employment contracts, maximum duration and conditions for extensions and renewals, returning to stricter constraints on their use, in order to counter forms of precarization.

The text of the third question is as follows: "Do you want the Legislative Decree No. 81 of June 15, 2015, having as its object "Organic regulation of labor contracts and revision of the regulations on the subject of duties, pursuant to Article 1, paragraph 7, of Law No. 183 of December 10, 2014," to be repealed, limited to the following parts: Article 19, paragraph 1, limited to the words (...), Article 21, paragraph 01, limited to the words "freely in the first twelve months and, thereafter,"?

If the question is approved, it would revert to a system in which every fixed-term contract would have to be justified by concrete needs, thus reducing flexibility for firms. That is, the question proposes making the presence of a justifying reason mandatory from the beginning of the fixed-term contract and limiting the autonomy of the parties in defining it.

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