DLP Insights

The obligation to specify the reason (technical, organizational, productive or replacing reasons) to justify the use of a fixed-term contract has been deleted in the bill regarding the labor market reform.

The main provisions of the labor reform - which will be applied to both the existing contracts and the future ones - will be: (i) in case of dismissal for economic (or objective) reasons, a compensation equal to from 15 up to 27 monthly salaries;

The social security reform, provided by Law Decree No. 201/2011 aims at harmonization. In 2021, in fact, men and women will retire for old age at 67 years.

The Italian Revenue Agency, with memorandum No. 3/2012, clarified that also the coordinated and continuous collaborators, including the governing directors of company, are entitled to benefit from the system of separate taxation on the compensation received in connection with the termination of collaboration, up to the limit of one million Euros.

On February 24th, 2012, the Council of Ministers approved a Legislative Decree which identifies three cases in which the supplied work without stating the relevant reason is allowed.