There are a number of advisory tripartite bodies which carry out administrative functions together with the labour offices.
Regional Employment Commissions (Commissione Regionale per l'Impiego - CRI)
CRIs were instituted by Law 675 of 12.8.1977 to foster labour mobility in accordance with the requirements arising from industrial restructuring and conversion. They were subsequently reformed as regards their tasks and composition, the latter having in fact been redefined by Law 863/84 as follows:
- Minister of Labour or an Under Secretary of State delegated by him, acting as chairman;
- one member of the regional government (giunta regionale), acting as deputy chairman;
- two members appointed by the regional council (consiglio regionale), being limited to one vote;
- four representatives appointed by professional employers' organisations;
- six members appointed by the trade unions;
- two members appointed by professional non-industrial employers' organisations and organisa-tions of self-employed persons;
- an equality counsellor (with rights of intervention). By virtue of Law 125/91 (Art. 8), the counsellor is a full member.
The tasks of the regional employment commissions were redefined by Law 56 of 28.2.1987 which, under Art. 5, defines the commissions as bodies for planning, implementing and monitoring active labour policy. Their tasks were extended by Law 223/91. The CRIs have in particular the following functions:
- within their own geographical area they carry out the tasks of the central employment commis-sion;
- they give opinions on the vocational training programmes drawn up by the regional admin-is-tra-tion and propose the implementation of vocational training and retraining programmes;
- they prepare programmes for the integration of difficult-to-place workers;
- departing from the law in force, they can decide on various methods of registering on the placement lists;
- they approve lists of redundant ("mobile") workers and take all suitable initiatives to promote their reintegration, working in collaboration with the employment office;
- they can propose reserving a proportion of all recruitments (not more than 20%) for the most disadvantaged groups, which are also defined according to regional demands.
The members of the CRI remain in office for three years.
Other commissions working on the local level have more limited tasks. They are:
- the provincial employment commission;
- the commission for placement in agriculture;
- the provincial commission for compulsory placement;
- the commission for outwork.
Local employment commissions and local commissions for placement in agriculture
The local (district) employment commission is appointed by the director of the provincial Labour Office and is composed of the person responsible for the local employment office as chairman, four workers' representatives and four employers' representatives.
The local (district) commission for placement in agriculture is appointed by the director of the provincial Labour Office and is composed of a representative from this Office as chairman, four workers' representatives and four employers' representatives, of whom at least one is an agricultural proprietor.
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