Insights

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.

The Court of Cassation, with its decision no. 4991/2015, recognized the autonomy of the parties to set the duration of notice.

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