His academic career was interspersed with public service: as director of labour exchanges from 1909 and permanent secretary of the Ministry of Food from 1919.

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The privatisation of labour exchanges and changes to apprenticeship contracts will inject even more flexibility into the Italian labour market, promises Maurizio Sacconi, the minister responsible.

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After the chamber exchanges, Labour toured the media tower in considerable excitement.

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