DLP Insights

In its session on Wednesday 8 October the Senate approved the government amendment, entirely replacing the delegating bill no. on labour (so-called “Jobs Act”), the approval of which the Executive had called a confidence vote. The text of the proposal now passes to the Chamber for a second debate.

With Circular No. 23/2014, the Ministry of Labour has enunciated the process for the granting of relief from social security contributions that, starting 21 March 2014, accompany solidarity contracts supported by the Extraordinary Redundancy Benefit Fund (CIGS).

Tommaso Nannicini, an economist at the Bocconi University in Milan and one of the closest advisors to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, confirmed that the Government’s objectives in reforming art. 18 of Law 300/1970 are to specify the “extreme cases” of illegal disciplinary dismissals where job reinstatement will be permissible, whereas real protection will be completely eliminated for economic redundancies.

Court of Cassation, judgment no. 20106 of September 24, 2014, has stated again the principle according to which for the calculation of the period of job preservation in the case of illness also public holidays have to be included when illness occurred also in the day after or before it, because a continuing illness event is presumed to occur.

Among the hypotheses under study of the Government also the possibility to transfer 50% of TFR in the employees’ payslips.