DLP Insights

On March 22, 2011 the Decree of the President of the Ministers’ Council (D.P.C.M.) n. 275/2010 became effective. The mentioned decree carried into effect the provision of Article 2, paragraph 3, Law no. 241/1990, related to the duration of the administrative proceedings of the Ministry of Labor not exceeding ninety days.

Certification of employment contracts may help to prevent litigation on labour issues only when it is used in a way coherent with its own aims, clearly set in the Law Decree no. 276/2003.

Confindustria and Cgil, Cisl and Uil – according to the agreement dated March 8th on the guidelines that can be applied at a local level by companies enrolled in Confindustria – are setting local agreements which are the assumption for the enforcement of the favourable taxation equal to 10% on wage elements linked to competitiveness and productivity.

On March 8, 2011, Confindustria, Cgil, Cisl and Uil signed, as implementation of memorandum no. 3 of Ministry of Labor and Italian Revenue Agency, the basic text of the guidelines necessary for the second level union agreements (territorial or company ones) on which the tax reduced rate equal to 10%, applicable to the parts of the salary connected with productivity increases, depends.

The Ministry of Labour, answering to the consulting no. 12/2011, has clarified that, in case of a free-lance contract on project basis stipulated with a self-employee who is not resident, the parties may agree in order that the payment of contributions be realized by the collaborator and not by the contractor.