Abstract

The «failure» of the last Italian civil service reform (c.d. legge Madia) under one of the most controversial statement of the Italian Constitutional Court (judgment n. 251/2016) highlights the issue of the crisis of the State legislative power to unilaterally regulate civil service as a consequence of the regionalist structure of the Italian legal system. Yet the case law of the Constitutional Court still seems far from «taking seriously» the regional competence and meets considerable difficulties in overruling the concept that the reform of the civil service corresponds to a legislative power of regulating as a whole the administrative organization, constitution, performance, termination of the employment relationship.