The Italian Cultural Institute, the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University and the École des Sciences de la Gestion Université du Québec à Montréal, within the series of conferences dedicated to the topic “The culture of work in Italy. Changes in the Italian system of employment relations and their consequences”, are pleased to present the conference by Prof. Tiziano Treu “How employment legislation changed the Italian industrial relations system: some (un)intended consequences of labour market reforms”.
Monday, October 7 2019, 5pm
Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University
Armstrong Building, room 265
3420 Rue McTavish, Montreal
Conference held in English
*Prof. Tiziano Treu cannot be in Montreal for unexpected personal reasons. His paper will be presented and exhibited by Prof. Michele Faioli, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan.
More than half a century ago, the scholar M.O. Tobriner wrote perceptively: “(…) the labor movement of a country cannot be dissected in abstraction. It is as much a reflection of a nation’s culture and history as its art and literature; (…) the social anatomy of a culture is revealed by its component parts. A labor movement is at once an integral segment and reflection of the whole structure.” (“A Lawyer Looks at French and Italian Labor”, Labor Law Journal, 1953, vol. 4, no. 9 (September), p. 613. September). By moving just from this consideration, the conference program focuses on the complex issue of work and in particular on implementing policies, Mutation of law and the diversity of production environments in Italy.
Tiziano Treu is Emeritus Professor of Labour Law at the Catholic Univeristy of Milan and director of CNEL (National Council for Economics and Labour). As Minister of Labour and Social Security (1995-1998), member of Italian parliament, and outstanding scholar and director of CNEL, his contributions to the Italian Industrial Relations system and labour market policies are as significant as they are numerous. One of his most important contributions in this regard is Law 196 (1997), known as the “Pachetto Treu”, designed to combat unemployment by introducing flexible employment contracts.