DLP Insights

By laws no. 136 of December 17th, 2018 (so called “Fiscal Decree”) and no. 145 of December 30th, 2018 (so called “2019 Budget Law”), several news in the field of labour and social security law have been introduced.   The main changes in the two laws mentioned above are as follows: the tax credit for ....

In the operative part of judgment 194/2018 issued on 8 November 2018, the Constitutional Court has ruled that art. 3, paragraph 1, of Legislative Decree 23/2015 (governing open-ended employment contracts with increasing protections) is constitutionally unlawful when it links the amount of severance indemnity (for that part not modified by the Dignity Decree) payable to ....

The transition period ended on 31 October 2018. It allowed for alignment to the new regulations governing fixed-term contracts, as introduced with Decree Law 197/2018, (the “Dignity Decree”), which was then converted into Law 96/2018. In particular, the Dignity Decree had provided that the new provisions would be applicable to renewals and extensions after 31 ....

The Ministry of Labour, with press release no. 19 of 17 September 2018, informed all those concerned that the Council of Ministers approved (specifically, on 13 September 2018) a decree enacting measures concerning some of the most urgent matters for the country, including the reinstatement of the extraordinary wages guarantee fund for discontinuation of business ....

Official Gazette No. 186 dated 11 August 2018 has published the conversion law (Law No. 96) of Law Decree 87 (the so called Dignity Decree), entered into force on 14 July. Major changes have been applied to the fixed term contract. In particular, a fixed term contract can be entered into without reason for 12 ....