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Lower House approves Renzi's Jobs Act, amid dissent

Lower House approves Renzi's Jobs Act, amid dissent

Forty Democratic Party MPs walk out rather than vote

Rome, 26 November 2014, 10:32

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The Lower House on Tuesday approved center-left Premier Matteo Renzi's signature Jobs Act labour reform bill with 316 in favor, six against and five abstaining out of a total of 630 seats.
    Renzi greeted the news with a tweet, saying the bill is the harbinger of a better future for Italy's recession-weary workers and flatlining economy.
    "The Lower House approves the Jobs Act. More protections, solidarity, and jobs," he tweeted. The premier's victory was hard-won over internal opposition as 40 out of 307 MPs from his Democratic Party (PD) walked out before the final vote, while two remained to vote against the bill and two more abstained. MPs from the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, the anti-immigrant Northern League, the leftwing Left Ecology Freedom party and ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi's center-right Forza Italia (FI) party also walked out before the vote, after staging assorted protests from their seats. Ex PD chief Pier Luigi Bersani, one of the bill's most vocal opponents, stated earlier he would vote in favor "out of party discipline" although parts of the proposed legislation left him "unconvinced". The statement by the party's one-time secretary-general and ex-premier of Italy was followed by "one last appeal for party unity" by PD President Matteo Orfini. "I hope everyone will make one last effort out of respect for the all work we've done and for our community," he said. During floor debate, a group of FIOM metalworker union members tried to stage a protest from the public's section of the Lower House, but were pushed back by security. The biggest novelty in the Jobs Act as it now stands is that it amends Article 18 of the 1970 Workers Statute to limit cases in which employees who can prove they were wrongfully dismissed can be reinstated.
    The bill also institutes open-ended contracts with increasing protections to replace a plethora of temporary and other low-paying, no-benefits contracts that have proliferated in Italy as companies try to avoid paying high labor taxes.
   

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