DLP Insights

Ministry of Labor, with the note no. 5of January 21, 2013, provides with some clarifications concerning apprenticeship in the light of the amendments set by Law no. 92/2012.

The Ministry of Labour has published the memorandum No. 3/2012 in which it has been clarified the new provision of Article 1, paragraph 40, of Law No. 92/2012, which modified Article 7 of Law No. 604/1966. The Ministry has clarified that dismissals due to maximum period of sickness overcoming are not included in the mandatory conciliation procedure.

For the Ministry of Labor the new settlement procedure introduced by the art. 7 Law 64/1966 can also concern further issues, beyond the specific one regarding the dismissal.

Ministry of Labor, with question no. 42/2012, specified that seasonal companies will not pay ASpI additional.

The circular of the Ministry of Labour No. 32/2012 and the Ministerial Decree dated December 20, 2012 clarified, in the light of the so called Fornero Reform (Law No. 92/2012), the several conditions to be respected for VAT collaborations: (i) specifying, in particular, the method for calculating the temporal condition of eight months in order to consider the VAT collaborations as free-lance collaborations on project basis and (ii) explaining that the new rules contained in Law No. 92/2012 have not to be applied to most of the companies and to professional firms and that the first inspections may be executed no earlier than July 18, 2014.