June 2025 referendum and management of electoral permits
- Studio Piceci
- May 13, 2025
- Reading time: 7 min
News . 13/2025
We hereby wish to provide you with a summary of the questions that will be put to citizens in the Referendum on June 8 and 9, 2025, on work and citizenship.
There are five questions in total, all of which are repeal questions, with the aim of amending or eliminating specific provisions of the law currently in force.
The first question concerns the employment contract with increasing protections – Regulation of unlawful dismissals: Repeal, with the reinstatement of the possibility of reinstatement in the workplace for employees dismissed without just cause, overcoming 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 permanent employment contracts with increasing protections, 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 of workers hired after March 7, 2015, in the event 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 application of the real protection system for all workers, based on the assessment of the judge and, in some cases, on the reinstatement of the dismissed worker in their job.
The second question concerns workers in small businesses, calling for the elimination of the maximum limit on compensation in cases of unlawful dismissal, giving judges greater freedom 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, containing "Provisions on individual dismissals," as replaced by Article 2, paragraph 3, of Law No. 108 of May 11, 1990, limited to the words "between one" and the words 'and a maximum of 6' and the words 'The maximum amount of the aforementioned indemnity may be increased to 10 months' salary for employees with more than ten years' service and to 14 months' salary for employees with more than twenty years' service, if they are employed by an employer who employs more than fifteen employees.'?
If approved, the referendum would remove regulatory constraints on compensation, potentially increasing financial protections for those working for small employers in the event of unfair dismissal.
The third question proposes the partial repeal of regulations concerning the setting of terms for employment contracts, maximum duration, and conditions for extensions and renewals, returning to stricter constraints on their use in order to combat forms of precarious employment.
The text of the third question is as follows: "Do you want Legislative Decree No. 81 of June 15, 2015, concerning 'Comprehensive regulation of employment contracts and revision of the legislation on job 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 referendum question is approved, we would return to a system in which every fixed-term contract must be justified by concrete needs, thus reducing flexibility for businesses. In other words, the question proposes to make it mandatory to provide a justification from the outset of the fixed-term contract and to limit the autonomy of the parties in defining it.