DLP Insights

On June 9, 2011 the final version of the Legislative Decree - realization of one delegation of the so called “Collegato Lavoro” (Law no. 183/2010) - which aims to simplify and reorganize the provisions concerning the regulations of leaves for employees of public and private sectors, was approved by the Council of Ministers.

According to the Justice Committee of the Chamber of Deputies the Legislative Decree which inserts the environmental crimes into the Legislative Decree no. 231/2001 extends excessively the liability of companies for environmental offenses as it would also introduce hypothesis of crime for minimum damage and for danger which would prove no real offensiveness.

INPS, with message no. 11240/2011, communicated that the “procedural” verifications are initiated in order to exclude the sending of the so called “avvisi di addebito” – provided with a value of execution document since January 1, 2011, under Article 30 of Law by Decree no. 78/2010 (converted with Law no. 122/2010) – when payments have been already made.

The provisions issued with Memorandum no. 4/2011 by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and by the Ministry of Labour, besides harmonizing the procedures between the public sector and the private one, fixed the deadline on June 17, 2011 for the definitive switchover to the data processing system (so called “Sac”) for the online health certificates sending.

The novelties which will be introduced by the Consolidated act on the apprenticeship, which is under consideration by the experts of the Ministry of Labour, are certainly important.