Conventional treatment of gender violence, a topic whose regulation is changing location

Abstract

This study provides a general overview of the legal and contractual regulations governing measures designed to protect women who are victims of gender-based violence in the workplace, specifically regarding hiring, probationary periods, reduced work hours, reorganization of working hours, remote work, transfer to another location, suspension of the contract, and termination of employment. This analysis has revealed several key aspects: first, the need for collective bargaining to flesh out the provisions established by the legislature and to supplement them by filling the remaining gaps in protection; second, the tendency of collective agreements to reiterate the legal text, without making original contributions that enrich the applicable legal framework, raising problems due to the disconnect between the content of the agreed-upon texts and that of legislative reforms; finally, the progressive shift of the issue, increasingly, toward being addressed within equality plans, as gender-based violence constitutes a particularly grave manifestation of the historical discrimination suffered by women.