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An employer who dismisses an employee enjoying increasing protections can make a settlement offer at the time of the administrative proceedings or when dealings with trade unions and authorities within 60 days from dismissal, for the sole purpose of avoiding lawsuits. The settlement offer would be in the amount of one month’s salary as per ....

Categories: Legislation

Legislative Decree No. 253/2016 which regulates the conditions of entry and stay in Italy of foreign employees as part of intra-corporate transfers was published in the Official Gazette of 10 January 2017. The aforementioned decree, in force since 11 January, contains the provisions necessary for the transposition of Directive 2014/66/EU dated 15 May 2014, the ....

Categories: Practice

With circular No. 1/2017, the National Labour Inspectorate provided clarifications to the inspectors on the “transnational secondment of workers in the framework of the provision of services“. The attention of the Inspectorate focused on the implementation of Legislative Decree 136/2016, which in addition to regulating the typical cases of cross-border secondment, extends, among others, its ....

Categories: Legislation

On 7 December 2017, the Senate definitively approved bill no. 2611 relevant to the “Government Budget for the 2017 financial year and the multi-annual budget for the three-year period 2017-2019” (the so-called 2017 Finance Bill). The main developments in terms of “employment” include: (i) the increase in the value of production bonuses with a fixed ....

Categories: Legislation

With the entry into force of Law no. 199/2016 on 4 November 2016, the predicate offences entailing the administrative liability of entities set forth by Legislative Decree no. 231/2001 (hereinafter the “Decree”) now include illegal intermediation and exploitation of labour (known as the “gangmastering”). More specifically, the measures set forth by section 25 quinquies of ....

Categories: Legislation

Section 7-quinquies of the law which converted decree no. 225 dated 1 December 2016 containing “Urgent fiscal measures and measures for financing non-deferrable requirements ”, published in Official Gazette no. 282/2016, provides an authoritative interpretation of the definition of “earnings from work carried out on assignment” and “travelling worker on assignment”. In particular, paragraph 6 ....

Categories: Practice

On 13 December 2016, FenealUil, Filca Cisl, Fillea Cgil and Federlegno signed the draft renewal agreement for the  Wood Furnishings Industry. The agreement, which is applicable to about 250 thousand workers, introduces a salary increase based on two principles: the first provides a fixed monthly increase tranche, without any verification, equal to 35.00 Euro for ....