DLP Insights

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.

INAIL, with note no. 11/2014, stated that the following communication have to be made only through electronic modality with the online services accessed from the website of the Institute: (i) the communication of the names of the employees' health and safety representative (so called “RLS”) and (ii) from February 15, 2014, also the communication of the names of collaborators and assistants of family businesses, assistants of commercial companies and partners-employees of business and of companies in corporate form.

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.

The European Court of Justice, with judgment in Case 596/2012 of February 13, 2014, stated the illegitimacy of the Italian legislation on collective dismissals (Law 223/1991) with reference to the exclusion of executives from the procedure.