Insights

Ministry of Employment, with note no. 18273 of October 12, 2012, specified that communications on the termination of the employment relationship have to be sent to the so called “Centro per l’impiego” within 5 days starting from the resolution regardless from the circumstance that the dismissal is effective from the start date of the new settlement procedure, set in the Law no. 92/2012 (so called “Fornero reform”).

The Ministries of Labour and Economy, with interministerial decree, have allocated approx EUR 230 million for the hiring of young workers and of any-age women up to March 31, 2013. In particular, the incentive will be recognized for contracts with young employees up to 29 years-old or women, without age distinction, within a limit for each employer.

INAIL, with letter No. 48/2012, has established that the employer has to request the opening of a separate territorial insurance position for the regularized employees through a complaint of variation (if he already has an INAIL company code) or a complaint of registration (if he is not enrolled at INAIL).

The Ministry of Labour, with note No. 12728/2012, has postponed, up to a date to be determined, the possibility to send by fax or email the communications regarding the job on call contracts to the Local Authorities called “Direzioni Territoriali del Lavoro”.

The so called “Pacchetto Semplificazioni” - drafted by the Government and under the exam of the next Council of Ministers – provides a reduction of the working ability (46% rather than the current 60%) as a consequence of an accident or illness at work requested to the employee in order to be included in the number of disabled employees who have to be mandatorily hired (Law No. 68/99).