Senate labor committee OKs govt Jobs Act

(ANSA) - Rome, November 27 - The Senate labour committee on Thursday approved the government's Jobs Act labour reform bill after voting down all the amendments that had been filed. The Jobs Act is slated to go to the Senate floor next Tuesday, sources said. The center-left Matteo Renzi government wants the bill converted into law by year's end so it can go into effect January 1, but vast sectors of Italian labor and dissenters from within the ruling Democratic Party continue objecting that the measure will scale back rights, not create jobs.