Abstract

The decline of the prevailing pattern of the contract of employment - full-time and non temporary in a medium/big size enterprise - imposes to consider again the relationship between labour and economics, the object and the function itself of labour law. The author considers that at present one can not consider - as in the past - the "job", but the "jobs" are those which are changing all the characteristics of the old employment; in this frame labour law is compelled to reshape itself by individuating a core of protection common to all "jobs" and which can not be renounced. Moreover, labour law must consider again its relationship with social protection: in the coming era of "jobs" it should be inserted within a frame of "social citizenship" intended to guarantee a minimum of protection to every citizen.