Referendum, third question: reintroducing the grounds for fixed-term contracts

The third of the four labour referendum questions still concerns the Jobs act, but also the latest intervention of the Meloni government aiming at the elimination of some rules on the use of fixed-term contracts. The latter can now be established for up to 12 months without a reason. The obligation of reasons for fixed-term contracts of up to 12 months had been eliminated in 2015 with the Jobs act of the Renzi government and then reintroduced in 2018 with the Dignity decree of the Conte government. The most recent change came in 2023 with the Meloni government's Jobs decree, which excluded for renewals and extensions the need for causal reasons for contracts up to 12 months and introduced new causal reasons for contracts lasting between 12 and 24 months (including that for needs of a technical, organisational or productive nature identified by the parties in the absence of the contractual provision, which can be stipulated until the end of the year). "Let us make work more stable. Let's restore the obligation of reasons for the use of fixed-term contracts,' is the demand of the referendum.