Alessandro Garilli

ABSTRACT: The article shortly analyses the evolution of employment regulations in public administrations, considering the ways in which employees’ skills and performances are taken into account. Afterwards it describes the last legislator’s interventions (n. 15/2009 and 150/2009), shaped on authoritarian business akin rules, putting in evidence their contradicions with the structure of the last reforms, based on private contract rules, and their diffi culties in enforement. KEY WORDS: employment in public administrations, personal skills, reform 2009. SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa – 2. La crisi del modello pubbicistico – 3. La scommessa della privatizzazione. La prima fase della riforma – 4. Segue. La seconda fase. I punti di sofferenza e le ricadute sulla professionalità – 5. La riforma «Brunetta». I nodi problematici della rilegifi cazione della disciplina