At the beginning, the magazine opens with an editorial by the President Treu on the need to update the principles of the Workers' Statute, followed by detailed studies and analyses on some of the main issues that emerged during the Covid-19 emergency, such as smart working, online learning, the emergence of irregular immigrant workers, the impact on the national health system, the work-life balance. In this issue of the newspaper, the usual focus on the normative part, in which the main innovations related to the measures adopted during the pandemic are reported, is very detailed.

"The protection of the dignity of workers and the forms of participation must be adapted to the times in different ways, but always remaining faithful to the spirit of the Statute. Times have changed, it is time to think about an adaptation of the Law 300, taking into account the fragmentation of employment and production".

In commenting on the data of the National Archive of the contracts reported in the magazine, President Tiziano Treu said that a new contractual season should be encouraged as "the data relating to expired national collective agreements, which based on the latest update of the Contract Archive of the CNEL is 59.3%, should be seen as an opportunity rather than being read negatively. In new contracts it will be necessary to introduce and strengthen new rights such as the training of workers, especially digital training, by regulating the new organization of employment also following the health emergency.

At the date of the 31st of March 2020, the number of CCNL contracts (national collective agreements) currently in force deposited at the CNEL reached 932, an increase of 10 units compared to December 2019. 553 contracts result to be expired. This increase is attributable to the "cleaning" work that is being carried out in relation to contracts which have expired for some time, of which terminations or confluences had not been reported.

In the first quarter of 2020, 84 new contracts and agreements relating to national bargaining were filed in the CNEL Archive. Of these, 18 cases (21.4%) are of new accessions. The sector in which the largest number of contracts filed with CNEL is registered remains Commerce (248), equal to 26.6% of the total.