Employer representation: questions and perspectives

Abstract

The essay, in reconstructing the composition of employers' associations and their representativeness in relation to the product sectors, highlights the distortions of the Italian system of industrial relations. In the second part, the author analyzes the contractual and legal proposals aimed at measuring the representativeness of employer associations, focusing on possible solutions that prevent employers from applying to workers in the same productive sector very different legal and economic conditions

Keywords

• employers’ associations
• competition among organizations
• representativeness
• regulations of representativeness
• production sector