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April 12 is the deadline for the submission of applications for obtaining the contributive bonus of Eur 190 per month. This bonus is provided in favor of private employers who, in 2013, hired employees dismissed in the previous 12 months for objective justified reason, related to reduction, transformation or termination of business or employment by companies with less than fifteen employees.

Ministry of Labour replied negatively to the question no. 10/2014, with which it has been required if the staff performing the activity of inbound/outbound call center may be hired with the so called “job on call” contract, regardless from personal data and objectives requirements.

The text of the amended paragraph 1 of Article 1 of Legislative Decree no. 368/2001 provides, as only condition to be followed by companies entering into the new fixed term contract, the limit of 20% of the workforce.

Law Decree no. 34/2014, which became effective on March 21, 2014, abrogated the obligation for the fixed term employment contracts to be based on justifying reasons (i.e. technical, productive, organizational and replacement reasons), previously requested as essential condition for the lawfulness of temporary contracts exceeding 12 month duration.

Labour Ministry, with note no. 2642/2014, stated that the employer who pays cash in hand overtime is subject to a double penalty.

With circular no. 6/2014, the Labour Ministry interpreted the new code for labour inspectors stating that their role is not only to ascertain facts constituting violations and consequently notifying irregularities and applying sanctions, but also, as a supervisory body, he/she is formally given the responsibility of providing operational advice to properly implement labour and social security rules, with particular reference to issues of greater social importance, as well as to new laws and interpretations”.

The guidelines of the State-Regions Conference on apprenticeship focus on the regional training which, according to the Consolidation Act of 2011, can not last more than 40 hours per year.

INAIL, with note no. 11/2014, stated that the following communication have to be made only through electronic modality with the online services accessed from the website of the Institute: (i) the communication of the names of the employees' health and safety representative (so called “RLS”) and (ii) from February 15, 2014, also the communication of the names of collaborators and assistants of family businesses, assistants of commercial companies and partners-employees of business and of companies in corporate form.