DLP Insights

On March 20, the Ministry of Labor signed the decree that enforces for the “disadvantaged employees” the possibility of entering into a temporary supply contract without technical, productive, organizational and substitutive needs, necessary for a term provision.

Amending the rules of individual dismissals, “Fornero Reform” extended the terms for challenging out of Court the fixed term contract in the case of unlawful term provision (Law no. 92/2012 amended Article 32 of Law no. 183/2010).

An employee, after his/her dismissal in 2013, can register for VAT number to exercise an autonomous activity applying the system of the “super-minimum”.

Nowadays the stipulation of fixed term contracts in order to start up a new entrepreneurial activity is simpler if the employer is a innovative start-up company. The Development Decree 2.0, converted in the Law no. 221 of December 17, 2012, states that for the innovative start-up does not apply the clause regarding reasons justifying the fixed term contracts, i.e. the “technical, productive, organizational and replacing reasons” that other companies have to apply in the case of fixed term hiring.

INPS, with message No. 2939/2013, has stated that the 30-day period established by Article 9 of Law No. 164/1975 for the petition of the refusing decisions concerning the Ordinary Redundancy Fund delivered by the provincial commissions is not peremptory.