This article provides an analysis of recent debate about the reform Article 18 of “Statuto dei lavoratori”. The author finds two main reasons of the popularity of the Article 18: a current reason (the relation between the protection provided for by the Article 18 and recent debate about precarious workers) and a traditional reason (the symbolic value of Article 18) and suggests four possible reforms of current rules of dismissal: introducing fair dismissal on grounds of poor performance ); amending rules on dismissal based on economic reasons; modifying judicial interpretation of the criteria for the selection of the workers, in collective dismissals; amending current too sever remedies to unfair dismissal. The article highlights that this reforms can be enforced regardless of any changing of the Article 18.