Gino Giugni

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Gino Giugni (born August 1, 1927 in Genoa , † October 4, 2009 in Rome ) was an Italian politician .

biography

Giugni studied after school attendance law and was subsequently worked as a lawyer and as a professor of labor law .

Giugni, who was a member of the Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI), was appointed chairman of the National Commission for Labor Law in 1969 and was thus a pioneer, ahead of Marco Biagi and Massimo D'Antona, for the protection of Italian workers against the institutions of the state and the business world . In May 1983 he was assassinated by the Red Brigades and injured in the leg by a terrorist.

In 1987 he was elected Senator as a candidate on the PSI list and was re-elected in this capacity in 1987. At times he was chairman of the Senate's working committee. He was also a member of the Parliamentary Commission to investigate the activities of the Masonic Lodge Propaganda Due (P2).

In April 1993, Prime Minister Carlo Azeglio Ciampi appointed him Minister for Labor and Social Security (Ministro del Lavoro e della sicurezza sociale) in the cabinet, of which he was until the end of Ciampi's term in May 1994. In the last years of his political activity he was chairman of the commission for the guarantee of workers' rights.

After his death Giugni was from President Giorgio Napolitano and the Minister of Labor, Health and Social Affairs Maurizio Sacconi appreciated as an example of absolute commitment to the state and as the father of Italian labor law (Padre dello Statuto dei lavoratori) and protagonists of social development of the postwar period referred .

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