Di prossima pubblicazione negli scritti in onore di R. De Luca Tamajo

This paper focuses on the introduction of a new “permanent employment contract with growing protection” (the so-called “Contratto a tutele crescenti”), provided by the combined provisions of Law no. 183/2014 and the legislative decree no. 23/2015, as a part of a wider reform process included under the label of “Jobs Act”. 
Firstly, the Author focuses on the wide debate caused by the introduction of the growing protection employment contract – not only with regards to its exegetical aspects, but also about its assumed political and cultural consequences on the founding paradigms of Labour law. 
Secondly, the attention is devoted to the concrete regulation of dismissals introducted by the legislative reform (both to its positive and negative aspects). Then, in the last paragraph, the analysis of the reform leads the Author to some reflections on the persistent fundamental regulatory function of Labour law, even in the contest of the shift of some of its traditional protective functions.