No more layoffs via WhatsApp and Teams, and the obligation to enter into negotiations with institutions or trade unions. The new squeeze on relocations being examined by the government is also centered on these two key points, while a specific decree or an amendment to the Maneuver is being considered.

With the new rules, companies could no longer close to relocate production without first having found a solution for employees.

On the other hand, the question relating to sanctions has yet to be defined.

"We have to do something, I have been thinking about it for some time, I have written a hypothesis for a decree and I hope that it will soon find the sharing of the other competent ministries because I think that it is not a question of preventing closure or relocation, which is very complex and goes done with many tools, but to prevent people from knowing about their dismissal from a Whatsapp or from a remote conversion, or from an email ", underlined Andrea Orlando, Minister of Labor, on the sidelines of the debate on the future of the European Union , organized by Socialists & Democrats in Florence. "This is not acceptable - he added -, but above all the country is stripped of a productive and industrial heritage without putting it in a position to be able to react and to be able to build counter-moves that always exist, because then when we intervene and try to slow down these processes we see that there are always alternatives, or at least often there are. So this tool is necessary, it would be nice if in some way the European Union as a whole were also equipped with it, but in the meantime I believe that something must be done not to prevent relocations but to manage these processes in compliance with our Constitution and also in the interest of companies operating in the related industries and services of those sectors. Because when a multinational decides to leave overnight, it does not only affect the workers, who that would be enough, it also affects all the companies that operate in the related industries and that carry out supplies, all those who have invested in that project and that from one day to the next find themselves displaced ".