Who we are
The Labour Institute pursues the goal of developing technical and organisational expertise aimed at fostering the organisational evolution of enterprises and public bodies, as well as valorising work by encouraging different forms of participation and promoting, within the individual organisational and productive set-ups, quality processes in the relations between the social partners.
It is with this intent that the Emilia-Romagna Region, acting as founding institution, established with the
Regional law dated 6th April 1998, no. 10 (pdf)  the non-profit Foundation, named Istituto per il Lavoro, the Institute for Labour. On these grounds, the Foundation's statute thus outlines its duties:
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To draft an annual public report regarding the ongoing trends in the Region in terms of changes in labour processes and its organisational patterns, both in the industrial and the commercial, public and private services, public administration and agriculture sectors. This Report will, as far as possible, be drafted in the context of Italian and European initiatives comparing the trends in progress.
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To bring into being co-operation agreements in the fields of research and development on work themes, with national and regional institutes of various European Union countries pursuing similar aims.
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To organise the dissemination, by means of specifically designed programmes, of scientific, cultural and technical knowledge, as well as positive practical experiences, in the field of work innovation and its organisational patterns, in order to aid innovation processes in both public and private organisations.
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To plan and organise, according to the procedures laid down in the acts of association, programmes for the organisational change of the individual organisational situations or organisations linked up in activity networks.
In the activities that the Foundation performs inside companies, whether single or associated, it operates exclusively on the grounds of understandings jointly agreed upon by the bodies or enterprises and by the most representative union organisations in such companies.
This type of action, laid down in Art. 4, clause 3 of the Regional law and specified at point d. of the Statute (pdf) , presents the Institute as the third subject in the implementation of projects for organisational change, and valorises to the utmost an active participation in industrial relations.
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