DLP Insights

Tommaso Nannicini, an economist at the Bocconi University in Milan and one of the closest advisors to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, confirmed that the Government’s objectives in reforming art. 18 of Law 300/1970 are to specify the “extreme cases” of illegal disciplinary dismissals where job reinstatement will be permissible, whereas real protection will be completely eliminated for economic redundancies.

Among the hypotheses under study of the Government also the possibility to transfer 50% of TFR in the employees’ payslips.

The Inps, with message no. 6973/2014, clarified that in case of sickness the doctor's prognosis is binding for both the employee and the employer.

Disable persons not hired by the company are granted with damages for the period between the commencement day ad the actual first working day.

For the purposes of identification of threshold for hiring with fixed-term contracts, in the case of companies that started the business activity during the year (start-up), the number of open-ended term employees in force at the time of the first employee hired with fixed-term contract has to be taken into account.