DLP Insights

Confcommercio and the trade unions have reached an agreement for renewal of the Tertiary sector contract.

With the injection of approximately 45-50 million euro for economic coverage of the transformation of collaboration contracts into open-ended contracts with increased protection based on seniority, the findings submitted by the State General Accounting Department should be overcome.

The Court of Cassation, with its decision no. 4991/2015, recognized the autonomy of the parties to set the duration of notice.

Decree no. 29/2015 was published on 19 March 2015, which contains the implementing laws on post-employment benefits in pay packets.

On March 6 the first two implementing decrees of the Jobs Act approved last Friday 20 February 2015 have been published on the Italian Official Journal (“Gazzetta Ufficiale”) and they are in force starting from March 7. They involve long-term employment contracts with increased protection based on seniority and an overhaul of laws regarding social shock absorbers in the cases of dismissal.