Italian Workers' Participation in Business Management: A Historic Turning Point

With the final approval vote on the popular initiative bill – L. 76/2025 - promoted by the CISL, which took place on May 14, 2025, paving the road for workers' participation in the business management of Italian companies has moved the debate from the traditional locations of Italian trade union organizations to the halls of the Italian Parliament.

The final phase of approval of the bill, known as the Bill of Popular Initiative on Participation in Work, has in fact registered a strong opposition from certain members of Parliament. However, beyond the different and opposing motivations of those in favour and those against, with this new bill we can see a truly historical step forward towards an important cultural change of organizational models of business management in Italy.

Of note will be the essential change to how a business must - and can - contribute in a concrete way to the realisation of the real sustainability objectives that are required by today's modern organization of work, demonstrating the company's real desire to find the right balance between profit and well-being – through its attention to its people, the territory and the communities where the business operates… also with a view to future generations. This new law promoted by CISL, in its general framework, also perfectly...