Insights

Message no. 7/2012 of “Fondazione studi dei consulenti del lavoro”, which provides an analysis of the contracts in the light of the labour law reform, underlines that, with reference to damages in the case of conversion of fixed term contracts into open ended ones, only one indemnity is due, from 2,5 up to 12 months of the last salary.

Government issued the bill concerning labour law reform.

The Council of Ministers approved the bill on the labor market reform.

The obligation to specify the reason (technical, organizational, productive or replacing reasons) to justify the use of a fixed-term contract has been deleted in the bill regarding the labor market reform.

The main provisions of the labor reform - which will be applied to both the existing contracts and the future ones - will be: (i) in case of dismissal for economic (or objective) reasons, a compensation equal to from 15 up to 27 monthly salaries;