The Italian Government has approved a decree that is designed to relax the 2003 Biagi law in respect to the hiring of temporary workers. Currently, temporary staffing is only permitted for technical reasons, reasons to do with “production and organisation” or to substitute for absent staff (but not workers on strike). Company-level collective agreements may also limit the specific circumstances in which labour can be leased.
The new decree states that employers will no longer need to give reasons for hiring temporary employees when agreement has been reached by way of a collective bargaining agreement. Neither will such justifications be necessary when hiring those who were formerly unemployed or originating from “disadvantaged backgrounds”.