The new frontier of welfare: corporate participation

These were reinforced in recent years with the specific measures and tax facilities within Art. 51 of the TUIR – Unified Tax Law - towards fringe benefits.

All of these interventions have favored the consolidation of the various forms of voluntary welfare - and hence in doing so has created the conditions for the adoption of new models of negotiated welfare. It has had a positively influence in recent years on the Italian system of industrial relations, especially at company and territorial levels, where we see the data provided by Italian trade union agreements on performance bonuses (which is periodically released by the Ministry of Labor) shines a positive light.

This is an extraordinary opportunity that Italian trade unions have been able to seize in recent years - also in terms of promoting the modernization of their role. This evolution has seen their aim transforming from the "protection of the workplace" into the "protection of work" within the company. This shift sees the Italian trade unions staying true to their principles but at the same time it introduces an awareness that their contribution is creating the conditions for a new organization of work which is capable of...