Agenzia per la Rappresentanza Negoziale delle Pubbliche Amministrazioni (ARAN)
The Italian state agency that bargains collective contracts on behalf of public employers.
Italy's public-sector bargaining agency signed a national contract on 6 August 2026 giving public-sector unions the only Italian AI deal that bans AI from making employment decisions alone.
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Signed the public-sector CCNL carrying the automated-decision ban
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AI: Jobs, Power & Money: Italy bargains an AI ban into a contractBackground
The Agenzia per la Rappresentanza Negoziale delle Pubbliche Amministrazioni, known as ARAN, represents Italian public employers in national collective bargaining. In 2026, ARAN and public-sector unions signed a 2025-27 central-functions agreement that addresses digitalisation and AI.
ARAN negotiates collective agreements for public administrations and supports the application of public-sector employment contracts. The 2025-27 central-functions agreement expands prior information, consultation and supplementary-bargaining matters to cover digitalisation and the use of AI.
The 2025-27 agreement puts AI into a national bargaining framework rather than leaving deployment only to management policy, giving unions a route to seek information and discussion about AI at work and shaping how public-sector employers introduce systems that affect tasks, conditions and workers' voice.
ARAN banned solo AI hiring decisions
ARAN and Italy's public-sector unions signed a national collective contract on 6 August 2026 adding a dedicated Title on artificial intelligence, following a summer of union mobilisation against AI-driven job cuts in Italy's call-centre sector. The Title sets rules for AI use across public workplaces, giving Italy a national, bargained AI protection at a scale no single-employer deal has matched.
A 7 September legal analysis compared ARAN's deal against Barilla's roughly 4,000-worker private-sector agreement, signed in late July. Only ARAN's public-sector contract bans AI from making employment decisions entirely on its own; Barilla's agreement offers consultation rights but stops short of that ban.
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