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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