DLP Insights

The Ministry of Labour, with note No. 16636/2012, has updated the procedures - announced on August 9, 2012 and in force at an experimental stage - for the communications which have to be delivered by the companies for the execution of the job on call employees working activity.

On December 20, 2012 INAIL will publish the announcement concerning INAIL incentives for safety. The 2012 announcement allocates EUR 225 million, 78 of which to be transferred to the regions of Veneto, Lombardia and Emilia Romagna for seismic events, and others EUR 9 million for the financing of organizational models.

Court of Cassation, with the sentence no. 44824 of November 15, stated a new principle based on which the company, even in case of bankruptcy, is subject to the sanctions provided by Legislative Decree no. 231/01. Companies already went bankrupt, that have been accused for administrative liability of the entities, are subject to the payment of the sanctions set by Legislative Decree no. 231/01.

The new anti-corruption law, approved by Parliament at the end of October, provides that corruption between private persons and undue induction to give or promise utilities are the new crimes that can cause the companies liability in the absence of appropriate organizational model pursuant to Legislative Decree No. 231/2001, imposing, as a consequence, a significant revision of already existing organizational models.

INPS, by publication on its web site, has announced that requests necessary in order to obtain the bonuses for the stabilization of employment relationships, as provided for by the Ministerial Decree of October 5, 2012, have already reached the maximum amount placed at disposal of employers, equal to EUR 232,108,953.00.