Pietro Ichino

Pietro Ichino (born 22 March 1949) is an Italian politician and professor of labor law at the University of Milan (Università degli Studi di Milano).

He has said that it was his meeting with Don Lorenzo Milani that made him decide to study law and to commit himself to the trade union movement.

[1] On 2 June 2006, the president of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi awarded him the title of "commendatore" for the contribution given by his studies and teaching.

[7] Pietro Ichino has been living for some years now under police protection because of threats that some members of the Red Brigades have explicitly addressed to him and due to the fact that two of his colleagues (Massimo D'Antona and Marco Biagi), who worked on the same subjects dealt with by Ichino, have been murdered by the New Red Brigades.

“In Italy, whoever touches the Workers’ Statute dies.” This phrase was uttered by Ichino during his deposition at the trial of the New Red Brigades, in Milan on January 23, 2009[8] Professor Ichino is a supporter of a wholesale reform of employment contracts, which would entail that – as far as all newly hired employees are concerned – short-term and project-based employment contracts would be abolished.