The provisions of Article 4 of Law n. 92/2012 (so called Fornero’s Reform) have become effective with the publication in the Official Gazette of the Decree of the Ministry of Labour dated December 22, 2012. Therefore, in order to dedicate time to newborn baby’s needs, employees who have become fathers starting from January 1, 2013 must mandatory be absent from work for one day (apart from mother’s status), and optionally (as well as alternately to mother’s absence), for another two days. Both the compulsory day of absence and the two optional ones have to be used within child’s fifth month and are paid by INPS (equal to 100% of his daily mean salary integrated by the accruals additional monthly installments).