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Il Wall Street Journal propone un duro articolo contro la manifestazione della CGIL di sabato e definisce Renzi la “Iron Lady” Italiana.

Italy's labor-market rules have remained largely unreformed since the modern Italian state was established. Spread over some 2,700 pages, the labor code divides the labor force into two parts. Older workers benefit from the full weight of the law, including ironclad protections against being laid off, fired or disciplined, whether for performance or economic reasons. That leaves the remainder of the work force, predominately young, to make do with temporary, freelance and other forms of itinerant work.

Need to fire a worker for poor job performance? To do so, businesses must persuade a judge that no alternative short of termination was available—a process of administrative hearings and litigation that can take months and drain company resources. The World Economic Forum in its 2014-15 assessment of labor-market efficiency ranked Italy 141 out of 144 countries for hiring and firing practices, just above Zimbabwe.

Italy should be so lucky as to have an Iron Lady. The people protesting this weekend weren't marching for reasonable workplace protections. They were demanding guaranteed unemployment for millions of their fellow citizens. For the sake of all those out-of-work Italians, and especially the young, Mr. Renzi should stand firm for reform.

Leggi il resto sul Wall Street Journal.