The analysis of the first collective agreements in public em-ployment (employees of the State, Local authorities and other Pu-blic Law Institutions) — according to the new procedure esta-blished in d. lgs. 29/1993 — emphasizes the lines of contractual po-licy the social parties intend to develop. This analysis shows that the bargaining is mainly devoted to defining new rules about col-lective labour relations, whereas the shaping of the new «private» individual labour relation is very cautious and incomplete.