DLP Insights

The Ministry of Labour, with memorandum no. 15/2011, explained the formalities for the fulfillment of the communication obligation introduced by Legislative Decree no. 67/2011, which has regulated the benefit of early retirement for employees assigned to arduous and heavy jobs.

Within June 25, 2011 the employers have to send a communication to the local labour Authority (“Direzione Provinciale del Lavoro”) competent for the area and to the relevant social security institutions for the admission of the employees assigned to repetitive jobs to the pension benefits (Article 5, paragraph 2 of Legislative Decree No. 67/2011).

On June 9, 2011 the final version of the Legislative Decree - realization of one delegation of the so called “Collegato Lavoro” (Law no. 183/2010) - which aims to simplify and reorganize the provisions concerning the regulations of leaves for employees of public and private sectors, was approved by the Council of Ministers.

According to the Justice Committee of the Chamber of Deputies the Legislative Decree which inserts the environmental crimes into the Legislative Decree no. 231/2001 extends excessively the liability of companies for environmental offenses as it would also introduce hypothesis of crime for minimum damage and for danger which would prove no real offensiveness.

INPS, with message no. 11240/2011, communicated that the “procedural” verifications are initiated in order to exclude the sending of the so called “avvisi di addebito” – provided with a value of execution document since January 1, 2011, under Article 30 of Law by Decree no. 78/2010 (converted with Law no. 122/2010) – when payments have been already made.