Popular referendum of June 2025 and management of electoral permits

News n.13/2025

With this communication, we wish to provide you with a summary of the questions that will be posed to citizens in the referendum regarding labor and citizenship, scheduled for June 8th and 9th, 2025.

There are a total of five questions, all of which are aimed at repealing, modifying, or eliminating specific legal provisions currently in force.

The first question concerns the employment contract with increasing protection – Regulation of unlawful dismissals: Abolition, with the restoration of the possibility of reinstatement in the job for employees dismissed without just cause, overriding the rules introduced by the Jobs Act, which provided only for financial compensation.

The text of the question is as follows: “Do you want the repeal of Legislative Decree no. 23 of March 4, 2015 (...) containing: “Provisions on open-ended employment contracts with increasing protection, in implementation of Law no. 183 of December 10, 2014, in its entirety?”

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

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

The second question concerns workers in small businesses, asking to eliminate the maximum limit on compensation in the event of unlawful dismissal, leaving the judge greater freedom in calculating the 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, containing “Rules on individual dismissals”, as replaced by Article 2, paragraph 3, of Law no. 108 of May 11, 1990, limited to the words “inclusive between one”, the words “and a maximum of 6” and the words “The maximum amount of the aforementioned compensation may be increased up to 10 months for the worker with seniority of more than ten years and up to 14 months for the worker with seniority of more than twenty years, if employed by the employer who employs more than fifteen workers.”?

If approved, the question would eliminate the regulatory constraints on compensation, potentially increasing the economic protection for those who work for small employers, in the event of unjustified dismissal.

The third question proposes the partial repeal of rules regarding the affixing of a term to the fixed-term employment contract, maximum duration and conditions for extensions and renewals, returning to more rigid constraints for their use, in order to combat forms of precariousness.

The text of the third question is as follows: “Do you want Legislative Decree no. 81 of June 15, 2015, concerning “Organic regulation of employment contracts and revision of the legislation 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, subsequently,”?

If the question is approved, we would return to a system in which each fixed-term contract must be justified by concrete needs, thus reducing flexibility for companies. The question, that is, proposes to make 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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