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Law Decree no. 34/2014, which became effective on March 21, 2014, abrogated the obligation for the fixed term employment contracts to be based on justifying reasons (i.e. technical, productive, organizational and replacement reasons), previously requested as essential condition for the lawfulness of temporary contracts exceeding 12 month duration.

Labour Ministry, with note no. 2642/2014, stated that the employer who pays cash in hand overtime is subject to a double penalty.

With circular no. 6/2014, the Labour Ministry interpreted the new code for labour inspectors stating that their role is not only to ascertain facts constituting violations and consequently notifying irregularities and applying sanctions, but also, as a supervisory body, he/she is formally given the responsibility of providing operational advice to properly implement labour and social security rules, with particular reference to issues of greater social importance, as well as to new laws and interpretations”.

The guidelines of the State-Regions Conference on apprenticeship focus on the regional training which, according to the Consolidation Act of 2011, can not last more than 40 hours per year.

Art. 8, par. 2-ter, of the Decree called “Milleproroghe” no. 150/2013, approved by the Chamber of Deputies, in the stage of law conversion, provides for that also for the current year the workers who are receiving any kind of unemployment insurances can be employed with the type of so called “accessory work”, provided that the salary is not higher than EUR 3,000 during the solar year, without losing the relevant status and the indemnity paid.