Impresa di gruppo, interesse di gruppo, codatorialità

The paper suggests a possible legal framework for co-employment in the context of groups of
companies, on the basis of the new article 2497 of the Italian civil code. After a brief analysis
of the new legal regulation introduced with article 2497, on the one hand, and of the
concepts of «group interest» and «group undertaking», on the other, a new mechanism for
the ascription of employment relations is drawn as to coincide with the different boundaries
of the group undertaking. The paper then takes into consideration recent theoretical
perspectives, by suggesting that co-employment could be founded on the joint-liability paradigm.
Finally, co-employment and its consequences, with particular regard to the duty to
redeploy workers within the group as a whole, lead to regard groups of companies as internal
labour markets where a modern compromise bet