Il sostegno al reddito dei lavoratori in costanza di rapporto tra intervento pubblico e bilateralità

After the Jobs Act a new regulation has been adopted to guarantee wages for workers, both thanks to the old State insurance, so called “Cassa Integrazione Guadagni”, and the private one, covered by the new “funds” founded by social partners to benefit economic sectors and little firms excluded from public protection. In the new regulation a key point refers to the idea of implementing a better integration between active policies and passive ones in order to effectively protect workers’ wages during critical situations for companies, before unemployment. This model aims at allowing workers to maintain both job opportunities and wage levels during the employment relationship, while waiting for a return to normal situations. Social partners are on charge of a specific responsibility, where they play a central role not only in the State insurance system (where they are able to conclude the so called “Contratti di Solidarietà”, in order to benefit workers with public pay integration), but also in a new private insurance system, namely through the institution of bilateral collective funds (“Solidarity Funds”). Both public and private channels are regulated in accordance with the constitutional principle of solidarity, to prevent the risk of wages’ loss before dismissal, which is included in the Italian constitutional protective model, though unmentioned in Art. 38 of the Italian Constitution.