Italian PM Renzi takes on left over labour reform


  • World
  • Tuesday, 30 Sep 2014

Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi addresses the 69th United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York September 25, 2014. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi prepared for a showdown with the old guard of his centre-left Democratic Party on Monday over plans to overhaul job-protection guarantees as part of a broad reform of labour market rules.

Under mounting pressure to deliver on his ambitious reform promises, Renzi told Democratic Party leaders that the party had to overcome a "taboo" against changing rules that date from 1970 during Italy's postwar economic boom.

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