Insights

The Decree of the Labor Ministry dated December 22, 2012, published on the Official Gazette no. 37 of February 13, 2013, provides for the so called “bonus baby” for the mother workers.

The provisions of Article 4 of Law n. 92/2012 (so called Fornero’s Reform) have become effective with the publication in the Official Gazette of the Decree of the Ministry of Labour dated December 22, 2012. Therefore, in order to dedicate time to newborn baby’s needs, employees who have become fathers starting from January 1, 2013 must mandatory be absent from work for one day (apart from mother’s status), and optionally (as well as alternately to mother’s absence), for another two days.

The Ministry of Labor has informed that employers who have to hire or transfer Italian employees (or EU employees resident in Italy) for working activities in non-EU countries are required to apply for the relevant authorization from the Ministry of Labour itself.

INPS, with memorandum No. 14/2013, updated the new economic treatments provided for the social security cushions due to redundancy fund, mobility, unemployment (so called “ASpI”) and allowance for socially useful workers for 2013.

INPS, with memorandum No. 13/2013, summing up the social security contribution situation for 2013, pointed out that some of the usual extensions, which generally extend certain institutions to the following year, have not been confirmed for 2013.

Ministry of Labor, with the note no. 4 of January 18, 2013, provides some clarifications concerning the so called “accessory work” in the light of the amendments set by Law no. 92/2012.

Ministry of Labor, with the note no. 5of January 21, 2013, provides with some clarifications concerning apprenticeship in the light of the amendments set by Law no. 92/2012.

For the Ministry of Labor the new settlement procedure introduced by the art. 7 Law 64/1966 can also concern further issues, beyond the specific one regarding the dismissal.