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The article investigates the role and functions ofl bilateral institutions created by collective bargaining in tbe light of recent legislative reforms and projects outlined by tbe government. Experience demonstrates that bilateral institutions are effective when tbe law simply strengthens their role in delivering services and utilities they already provide; by contrast, when tbe law try to force them to play new roles, the outcome is unsatisfactory. The author is also critical of the recent tendency of the legislator to give preponderance to plant level collective agreements (sect. 8, law decree n. 138/2011):
this can seriously jeopardise the action of bilateral institutions, which are mostly establisbed by nationwide collective agreements, and is inconsistent with the governmental goal ofl attributing more and more welfare tasks to those organisms.
