DLP Insights

The art. 2, par. 5 bis, of the Fiscal Decree no. 16/2012, replaces the par. 28 of the art. 35 of the Law Decree no. 223/2006, extending also to the employer the jointly liability between contractor and subcontractors with reference to the payments to the Treasury of the income tax (so called “Irpef”) withholdings on the subordinate employment and of the VAT due on the performances of the contract work.

Tiziano Treu and Maurizio Castro of Labour Commission announce that the provision on disciplinary dismissals, as provided in the labour law reform (Article 14, Paragraph 4), will be amended, coming back to the previous version.

With Decree March 14, 2012, published on Official Journal no. 83/2012, the Ministry of Labour has estended until the end of 2012 the extraordinary playoff intervention (CIGS) and “mobilità”, within the limit of 45 million Euros, for companies of the Commercial Sector with more than 50 employees, turism operators with more than 50 employees and vigilance companies with more than 15 employees.

Message no. 7/2012 of “Fondazione studi dei consulenti del lavoro”, which provides an analysis of the contracts in the light of the labour law reform, underlines that, with reference to damages in the case of conversion of fixed term contracts into open ended ones, only one indemnity is due, from 2,5 up to 12 months of the last salary.

Government issued the bill concerning labour law reform.