Jobs Act: mandatory employment when the threshold of 15 employees is reached

Legislative Decree 151/2015, implementing the Jobs Act in terms of rationalisation and simplification of requirements, has repealed, effective as of 1 January 2017, paragraph 2, of article 3 of Law 68/1999. Therefore, starting on 1 January 2017, employers who employ more than 15 to 35 employees will have the obligation of hiring disabled workers as soon as they reach the threshold of 15 employees. Thus the gradual system we are currently familiar with will be abandoned, which entailed an obligation to hire disabled workers for these employers “in the event of new hirings”.