Ready to go again but with what rules? Inl clarifications and operational guidelines (Guida al Lavoro de Il Sole 24 Ore, 1 May 2020 – Vittorio De Luca, Antonella Iacobellis e Martina De Angeli)

In order to facilitate the activity of the Prefects at a decisive moment such as that of the so-called Phase 2, the National Labour Inspectorate (“INL”), on 20 April 2020, published note no. 149 (“Note INL no. 149”), with which it provides a real operating guide for its territorial offices, to contribute, at the request of the Prefectures, to the necessary checks on the occurrence of the conditions provided for the prosecution – in case where it is permitted – of production, industrial and commercial activities, with a view to indispensable synergy in the management of the current pandemic emergency.

These requests are in response to the circular of the Ministry of the Interior dated 14 April 2020, prot. no. 15350/117 (Annex A to the INL Note no. 149) which provides clarifications regarding the D.P.C.M. 10 April 2020 and which, among other things, highlights the need for the Prefectures to request the collaboration of the competent services of the Local Health Authorities (“ASL”) and the support of the INL’s territorial articulation, for the purposes of control:

• on the methods of implementation, by employers, of the organizational and management procedures that are the subject of the shared Protocol for the regulation of measures to combat and contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus in social work environments (“Anti-accounting Protocol”) of 14 March 2020 (Annex B to INL Note no. 149), and, more generally;

• on compliance with the precautionary measures to be taken to make workplaces and workers safe.

Source: full italian version published on Guida al lavoro – Il Sole 24 ore.