(Re-)Regulating Remote Work in the Post-pandemic scenario: Lessons from the Italian experience

Abstract

This essay addresses the complex model of regulation of remote work existing in Italy, composed of three distinct schemes: telework, “ordinary” agile work and the special form of agile work temporarily established to tackle the pandemic emergency. It compares the structural and functional features of the three bodies of rules by the systematic analysis of the relevant sources of legal and contractual nature. The aim is to assess the different solutions they envisage for the current problems of remote work, with a view to exploring possible ways to prepare the transition of this form of flexibility in the post-pandemic world of work.