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With Decree March 14, 2012, published on Official Journal no. 83/2012, the Ministry of Labour has estended until the end of 2012 the extraordinary playoff intervention (CIGS) and “mobilità”, within the limit of 45 million Euros, for companies of the Commercial Sector with more than 50 employees, turism operators with more than 50 employees and vigilance companies with more than 15 employees.

Government issued the bill concerning labour law reform.

The Council of Ministers approved the bill on the labor market reform.

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;