L’eredità della pandemia: i cambiamenti strutturali in materia di lavoro e welfare

The legislative tools aimed at dealing with the health, social and economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic had a transversal impact on the labour system. Starting from this consideration, the paper reviews the reforms that, more than others, have been prompted by the pandemic scenario, starting from the use of agile work in the atypical prevention logic up to the regulatory ferment in the field of health and safety at work. Secondly, the repercussions generated on employment have imposed a pervasive intervention on the vocational training and unemployment protection schemes, also with a view to devising – finally – an effective link between active and passive labour policies. Starting from the need to recalibrate the economic and social sustainability of public welfare, put to the test during the pandemic, the paper finally offers some reflections on the opportunity to rethink labour and social security protection techniques on the path of universalism that meets the new needs of worker protection (poor, discontinuous and atypical).