Insights

With the Decree 29/2015, which became effective last 3 April, workers can request monthly payment of their post-employment benefits (so-called "QUIR") in relation to pay periods from 1 March 2015 to 30 June 2018.

An agreement was signed on 31 March to renew the collective labour contract of the tertiary, distribution and services sector starting 1 April 2015.

Confcommercio and the trade unions have reached an agreement for renewal of the Tertiary sector contract.

With the injection of approximately 45-50 million euro for economic coverage of the transformation of collaboration contracts into open-ended contracts with increased protection based on seniority, the findings submitted by the State General Accounting Department should be overcome.

Decree no. 29/2015 was published on 19 March 2015, which contains the implementing laws on post-employment benefits in pay packets.

On March 6 the first two implementing decrees of the Jobs Act approved last Friday 20 February 2015 have been published on the Italian Official Journal (“Gazzetta Ufficiale”) and they are in force starting from March 7. They involve long-term employment contracts with increased protection based on seniority and an overhaul of laws regarding social shock absorbers in the cases of dismissal.

The designation of functions regarding occupational safety must be shown on a written document, bearing a specific date, and have a series of requirements which are essential for being able to release an employer from significant liability in cases of damage to health.

The first two implementing decrees of the Jobs Acts, the one on contracts with increased protection based on seniority and the one for overhaul of social shock absorbers, were published in the Official Gazette of 6 March this month, becoming effective 7 March 2015.