Technological-organizational innovations and frameworks in the renewals of the CCNL of private companies

Abstract

Through the analysis of the concept of emerging professionalism from collective agreements applied to the greatest number of workers (15 collective agreements, selected on the basis of the number of workers to which they apply and other criteria indicated), in this paper the Author points out that technological innovations are not producing a conceptual revolution comparable to that which was the unique framework of the 70s on the personnel framing systems, a fortiori because often the renewals of collective agreements take place after a considerable time; the problem, from the point of view of industrial relations, however, is that the increasing differentiation of the organizational models of enterprises could have the effect that the revision of the discipline of professionalism corporate, shifting the centre of gravity of collective bargaining towards a greater degree of decentralisation and hence the potential (and dangerous) extension of the employer’s powers. Finally, the effect of the interweaving between the protection of professionalism in national collective agreements and ius variandi of the employer is discussed