Diritto del lavoro e società pubbliche: rapporto di lavoro e autonomia collettiva dalla municipalizzazione al d.lgs. n. 175/2016

The article analyses the evolution of the labour law provisions about government-controlled companies, deepening the provisions applied to the so-called municipal enterprises during the twentieth century. In this kind of enterprises, collective bargaining played an important role and substituted the law. This sector formed a sort of subsystem, even as regards as the trade union relations, because it had his own organizations and its practice distinguished from that of the industrial system. The essay explains how the privatization of municipal enterprises (which were converted into private companies, controlled by local authorities, during the Nineties) has affected labour law. In the end, the article enunciates the main problems concerning the employment relationships ruled by the provisions of the Legislative Decree no. 175 / 2016