Abstract
This paper examines Decree-Law No. 19/2024 (converted, with amendments, into Law No. 56/2024), which introduced changes to two significant aspects of labour sanction law. On the one hand, the institutional structure of labour inspection has been revised, completing a reform process that began twenty years earlier with Legislative Decree No. 124/2004. On the other hand, in response to public outcry over tragic workplace accidents that received extensive media coverage, the sanctioning framework for outsourcing has been amended. This includes the reintroduction of criminal penalties, thereby reversing the decriminalisation introduced eight years earlier by Legislative Decree No. 8/2016.