Premier Mario Draghi's cabinet on
Wednesday is set to approve a new decree regulating worker
dismissals after reaching an agreement with trade unions and
business associations on the system that will kick in when the
COVID-19-linked ban on sackings ends on Thursday.
Under the agreement, firms will only be able to fire workers
once all available CIG furlough funds are exhausted.
The government had initially seemed intend on extending the ban
on dismissals, but only for some sectors considered vulnerable,
such as textiles.
The unions, on the other hand, had been pushing hard for
across-the-board ban to be extended until October, warning there
was the danger of a massive way of sackings.
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