Tra flessibilità e sicurezza: licenziamenti, sistema di protezione sociale e condizionalità nel confronto con l’esperienza tedesca

The purpose of this work is firstly to compare the Italian and German dismissal protections. Starting from the historical background of the expansive phase of the regulations that restrict the managerial capacity to dismiss employees, it dwells in the first chapter on the most recent reforms and how they have affected the protections in the work relationship. A more in-depth comparison of job security regulations is conducted in the second chapter, focusing in particular on the role of german betriebliche Mitbestimmung in the dismissal phase. In the third and final chapter a comparison of the two social security systems is developed with exclusive regard to social security and unemployment assistance measures and how these have been affected by the emergence of the conditionality principle. The latter is a central element in order to fully analyse the reforms - inspired by the reflection on flexicurity - of the reduction of protection in the work relationship in order to improve and enlarge it in the labour market, which in Italy have been implemented, in particular with regard to protection against unfair dismissal, in a much more incisive way than in the German system.