Article 8
Support for proximity collective bargaining
1. The collective bargaining agreements signed at company or local level by workers' associations that are comparatively more representative at national level or by trade union representatives operating in the company can implement specific agreements aimed at increasing employment, at the quality of employment contracts, at the emergence of work irregular work, increases in competitiveness and wages, management of business and employment crises, investments and the start-up of new businesses.
2. The specific agreements referred to in paragraph 1 may concern the regulation of matters pertaining to the organization of work and production including those relating to: a) audiovisual systems and the introduction of new technologies; b) the duties of the worker, the classification and classification of personnel; c) fixed-term contracts, part-time, modulated or flexible contracts, the solidarity regime in tenders and cases of recourse to temporary work administration; d) the regulation of working hours; e) the methods of recruitment and regulation of the employment relationship, including coordinated and continuous project collaborations and VAT numbers, the transformation and conversion of employment contracts and the consequences of termination of the employment relationship, with the exception of discriminatory dismissal and the dismissal of the worker in conjunction with the marriage.
3. The provisions contained in the company collective agreements in force, approved and signed before the inter-confederation agreement of 28 June 2011 between the social partners, are effective in relation to all personnel of the production units to which the agreement refers, provided that they have been approved by majority vote of the workers.
