The essay offers a critical overview of ordinary courts' powers; the ordinary judiciary competence has been extended to public employment cases by the recent reform. However, the ordinary ju-risdiction, unlike the administrative one, actually lacks the power of making void unlawful administrative acts. A peculiar reading of the new law has been put forward to fill this gap: the reform is in-deed meant to exclude administrative competence over the matter of public employment, except for the subjects specifically listed by the law (which are under the administrative jurisdiction, as well).