The law 183 of 2014, evocatively named the `Jobs Act', has been one of the key actions within the Italian post-crisis strategy. A strategy based, as in the other Southern European countries, on supply side policies as the main road to recover competitiveness, growth and employment. Bringing to completion a reform process begun in the 1990s, the Jobs Act has determined a substantial downsize of workers' protections.
The main changes are the following:
i) a new contract type – designed to become the prevalent one in the Italian labour market - has been introduced for new hires, removing any form of obligation for workers’ reinstatement in case of firms invalidly firing them,
