DLP Insights

On December 20, 2012 INAIL will publish the announcement concerning INAIL incentives for safety. The 2012 announcement allocates EUR 225 million, 78 of which to be transferred to the regions of Veneto, Lombardia and Emilia Romagna for seismic events, and others EUR 9 million for the financing of organizational models.

The new anti-corruption law, approved by Parliament at the end of October, provides that corruption between private persons and undue induction to give or promise utilities are the new crimes that can cause the companies liability in the absence of appropriate organizational model pursuant to Legislative Decree No. 231/2001, imposing, as a consequence, a significant revision of already existing organizational models.

Court of Cassation, with the sentence no. 44824 of November 15, stated a new principle based on which the company, even in case of bankruptcy, is subject to the sanctions provided by Legislative Decree no. 231/01. Companies already went bankrupt, that have been accused for administrative liability of the entities, are subject to the payment of the sanctions set by Legislative Decree no. 231/01.

INPS, by publication on its web site, has announced that requests necessary in order to obtain the bonuses for the stabilization of employment relationships, as provided for by the Ministerial Decree of October 5, 2012, have already reached the maximum amount placed at disposal of employers, equal to EUR 232,108,953.00.

As of November 25, 2012, the employers will have to communicate to the competent Labour Authority (so called “Centro per l’impiego”) the prosecution of the duration of the fixed-term employment contracts signed according to Article 5 Legislative Decree No. 368/2001 and subsequent amendments, through the online procedure, currently in use, regarding the mandatory communication “Unilav”. This obligation is established by the Ministerial Decree provided for by the law for the reform of the labor market, published in the Official Gazette No. 251/2012.