DLP Insights

On October 10th, 2011, the Legislative Decree No. 167/2011 (“Consolidated act of apprenticeship”), after more than two months from the approval by the Council of Ministers, was published into the Official Gazette.

The Law on the apprenticeship (Legislative Decree no. 167/11) punishes in administrative way the lack of written form of the apprenticeship contract.

INAIL (National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work), with memorandum No. 6295/2011, specified that the promoter of vocational trainings still has the formal obligation provided for by Article 3, paragraph 1, of the Ministerial Decree No. 142/1998 (enforcing Article 18 of Law No. 196/1997), which provides the obligation to insure trainees against accidents at work at INAIL, as well as for civil liability towards third party at an appropriate insurance company.

On September 21st, 2011, Confindustria and trade unions definitively signed the Interconfederational Agreement of June 28th, 2011 about contracts and representativeness, which has become, therefore, entirely effective.

The Legislative Decree definitively approved by the Council of Ministers on September 1, 2011 is in force. The discipline, according to the delegated legislation to the Government provided by Article 54, Law no. 69/2009, provides, through a rationalization and simplification of the special civil rules, that the the most part of the disputes have to be regulated through the three procedure models provided by the civil code of procedure: labor procedure, short procedure and ordinary procedure.