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The unemployment indemnity is retrospective for the employees terminated for objective justified reasons who reached a mutual termination agreement through the settlement procedure after last July 18.

The Ministry of Labour, with memorandum No. 29/2012, has identified a black list for the free-lance relationship on project basis, indicating - by way of example and not limitation, according to the existing case law guidelines - a series of duties which, for their peculiarity, could never be executed with collaboration contract.

Law no. 9/2012 (so called “Fornero Law”) extends to father employees, from January 1, 2013, one day leave compulsory (more two days as optional) for the birth of the son/daughter which can be enjoyed within the first five months of the latter.

The Ministry of Labour, with note No. 12886/2012, has specified that the dismissal of an employee due to the exceeding of the grace period for sickness is excluded from the conciliation attempt since it is not a hypothesis of the new case of dismissal for just cause introduced by Law No. 92/2012.

The Ministry of Labour, with note No. 16636/2012, has updated the procedures - announced on August 9, 2012 and in force at an experimental stage - for the communications which have to be delivered by the companies for the execution of the job on call employees working activity.