The author investigates the recent reform focusing on the section devoted to "economically dependent" self-employment work, highlighting the contrast line adopted by the legislator to the use of the different forms of self-employment work (collaborazioni a progetto e a partita Iva). But if the changes to the self-employment work appear to be consistent with the system and the purposes of the legislative measures, at the same time the feeling is that a sort of "political trade-off" eventually came off between those who advocate greater flexibility in firing and those who require a reduction of flexibility in hiring. Hence, the author wonders about the changes to the s.c. "self-employment project contract" (lavoro a progetto), with reference to the basic elements of the type both in terms of sanctions and contractual discipline.