Abstract

After the murder of Massimo D'Antona, three years ago, and today of Marco Biagi, the author asserts the necessity to analyse the reason of the "blood-stained labour law" as a preliminary condition to regain a full freedom of research and proposal. The author then reconstructs the principles of Labour Law, mainly following the doctrine of Federico Mancini and Otto Kahn-Freund. On this ground he criticises the proposals of the centre-right Government about collective and individual labour relations, focusing on dismissal regulation. The author proposes some alternative hypothesis based on the fundamental assumption that the future of Labour Law should be renewed without betraying its originary values.