Abstract

The essay intends to analyze from two points of view the role and the structure of the Guarantee Commission for the Strike in Public Essential Services Act in its fifteen years of service. The first point of view is referred to the State legal order, in which the Commission represents one of the several bodies of independent administrative authorities and therefore is bound to the rules of the Act which established it and - generally speaking - to the rules of public law. The second point of view - and of research - involves the system of industrial relations in order to verify the role played in it by the Commission itself and whether the discipline of strikes in essential services is still characterized - after the reform Act of 2000 - by the mix of rules of law and of collective agreements.