Insights

The employee, reinstated by the Court, must not be transferred in different premises from the ones where he/she worked at the time of employment termination, unless the employer does not demonstrate the existence of technical, productive or organizational needs, which makes the change of the work place necessary.

The Inter-union Agreement, signed on April 24, between Confindustria, on the one hand, and the three main trade union associations (Cgil, Cisl e Uil), on the other, allows companies without internal trade unions to enter into agreements concerning tax reduction in order to apply tax reduction for performance incomes in the measure of 10% for the activity exceeding the ordinary working hours.

The Ministry of Labour, with note no. 7258 dated April 22, 2013, specified that the national collective agreement may introduce derogatory disciplines to the jointly liability but only for wages treatments.

On April 22, the Ministry of Labour publicized the vademecum that represents the summary of the meeting between the General Direction of Ministry Inspective Activity and the National Council of Labour Consultants that took place on February 7 and 8, 2013.

The deadline for creating and adapting the bilateral solidarity funds, that in the ratio of Fornero Reform should safeguard the coverage of the ordinary layoff procedure (CIG) in all the sectors where it is not provided, is set on July 18, 2013.