June 2025 Referendum and Management of Voting Permits
- May 13, 2025
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News . 13/2025
We are writing to provide you with a summary of the questions that will be put to voters in the upcoming referendum on June 8 and 9, 2025, regarding employment and citizenship.
There are a total of five questions, all of which are repeal proposals aimed at amending or eliminating specific provisions of the law currently in force.
The first question concerns the employment contract with increasing protections – Regulations on unlawful dismissals: Repeal, with the reinstatement of the possibility of reinstatement in the workplace for employees dismissed without just cause, superseding the provisions introduced by the Jobs Act, which provided only for financial compensation.
The text of the question is as follows: “Do you want Legislative Decree No. 23 of March 4, 2015 (...) containing ‘Provisions regarding open-ended employment contracts with increasing protections,’ implementing Law No. 183 of December 10, 2014, to be repealed in its entirety?”
The proposal therefore calls for a return to the system in place prior to the Jobs Act, reinstating the judge’s authority to order the reinstatement of an employee hired after March 7, 2015, in cases of dismissal without just cause or valid grounds.
If approved, the referendum would result in the complete repeal of Legislative Decree No. 23/2015, eliminating the progressive protections and allowing the application of the system of substantive protection for all workers—a system based on a judge’s assessment and, in some cases, on the reinstatement of the dismissed worker to their position.
The second question concerns workers at small businesses, calling for the elimination of the cap on compensation in cases of wrongful termination, thereby giving judges greater discretion in calculating compensation.
The text of the question is as follows: “Do you wish to repeal 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 up to 10 months’ pay for an employee with more than ten years of service and up to 14 months’ pay for an employee with more than twenty years of service, if employed by an employer who employs more than fifteen employees.”?
If approved, the referendum would remove regulatory restrictions on compensation, potentially increasing financial protections for employees of small businesses in the event of wrongful termination.
The third question proposes the partial repeal of provisions regarding the setting of fixed terms for employment contracts, maximum duration, and conditions for extensions and renewals, returning to stricter restrictions 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 1, limited to the words ‘freely during the first twelve months and, subsequently,’?”
If the proposal is approved, we would return to a system in which every fixed-term contract must be justified by specific needs, thereby reducing flexibility for businesses. In other words, the proposal would require a justifying reason to be provided from the outset of the fixed-term contract and would limit the parties’ autonomy in defining it.
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