Welcome to the Public Administration Reform Web Portal.
The English version contains synthetic documents related to the reform as well as a description of the Reform Delivery Unit.
The Delegated Law n. 15 of 4 March 2009 and the implementing Legislative Decree of October 9, 2009, have paved the way for a comprehensive revision of all aspects related to the civil service model, with a view to improving labour productivity as well PA as efficiency and transparency. The Decree involves five areas:
Merit: a reinforced selection mechanisms for economic and career incentives, with a view to rewarding the most worthy and skilled employees, encouraging commitment and deterring malpractices.
Assessment: a performance assessment system that will help Public Administrations to reorganize their activities according to set targets and to an overall enhancement requirement. “Customer satisfaction”, transparency and merit-rewarding will be the milestones of such a system.
Collective bargaining: Collective bargaining provisions will be aligned with those regulating the private sector. More specifically, supplementary bargaining and, as a consequence, additional remuneration, will be conditional on the real attainment of planned results and management savings.
Management: increased importance will be given to managers, who are now entrusted with concrete tools and who will be subject to, inter alia, economic sanctions in case of failure to comply with their obligations. Also, a set of new procedures governing the access to top echelon managerial positions has been introduced.
Discipline: disciplinary proceedings have been simplified and a catalogue of particularly severe infractions leading to dismissal has been put in place.