Il “blocco” dei licenziamenti: profili storici e sistematici

The essay analyses the recent legislative measures introducing the block of economic dismissals to temporarily face the economic crisis generated by the pandemia. In the first part the work describes the similar measures in force in Italy in the aftermath of the second world war; in the second section it argues that the block is reasonable according to the constitutional principles: in fact, legislation grants protection to the right to work without cancelling the freedom of en-terprise at all, as in the meanwhile it introduces several benefits on behalf of companies (tax relief, suspension of payments).