The last issue of the magazine edited by the Support Office for Collegial Bodies opens with the presentation of the recent draft law on the unique identification code and common registry (CNEL-INPS, National Pension Fund Institute) for national collective bargaining agreements.

Among the focuses dedicated to contractual renewals, the new national collective bargaining agreement is described for the employees of publishing companies, printers and press agencies (formerly a “polygraphic contract”). This contract, ten years after the previous one and following a complicated negotiation process, introduces considerable changes in the agreements in order to adapt them to the profound transformations of publishing in recent years, and harmonizes the entire sector by means of a single contract that brings together the three sectors of publishing, paper and printing.

From the world of cooperation comes a significant step forward in the evolution of industrial relations. The last interconfederal agreement, in fact, provides for the fight against false cooperation and contractual dumping, includes the reference to the need to adopt clear criteria to measure employer representation, and recognizes the CNEL as an institutional subject capable of supporting the social partners in defining of their representativeness.