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Since 1 January 2017 companies in the metalworking and mechanical engineering sector have been required, every three years, to provide workers employed under permanent contracts with continuing professional development courses of a duration of 24 hours per participant, within their working hours and according to the procedures identified by Fondimpresa [Italian Inter-Professional Fund for Continuing ....

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 ....