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17 February 2012 • Insights

INAIL: THE APPRENTICESHIP CONTRACT IS LAWFUL EVEN WITHOUT WRITTEN AGREEMENT (“Italia Oggi”, February 15, 2012 – page 39)

INAIL, with note No. 434/2012, specified that the apprenticeship contract is lawful even in case of written agreement lack, as long as the employment relationship has been communicated to the competent authority (so called “Centro per l’Impiego”) trough the mandatory communication so called “UniLav”.

10 February 2012 • Insights

INPS: new minimum salary amounts for the employers (Il Sole 24 Ore on February 10, 2012 – page 31)

INPS, with memorandum No. 21/2012, brought up to date the minimum daily salary amount limits as well as the other values related to all social security contributions to comply with, in the first useful monthly installments, by the employers who are required to send to the relevant Institutes the several declarations concerning the social security contribution.

10 February 2012 • Insights

Court of Cassation, criminal section: liability has been expanded (Il Sole 24 Ore, February 11, 2012 – page 29)

Court of Cassation, criminal section, with sentence no. 5420/2012, stated that the missed drafting of the document concerning the risks assessment, so called “DUVRI - Documento unico di valutazione dei rischi”, with the related missed risks assessment arisen from work interferences between the employees of the principal and those ones of the contractor, is a circumstance which entails liabilities itself, in the case of injury.

3 February 2012 • Insights

INPS CLARIFICATION FOR REQUESTS OF ORDINARY LAYOFF (ITALIA OGGI, January 31, 2012 – Page 31)

With the note no. 141/2011, Italian social security Institute (so called “INPS”) run the temporary period to pass to the on-line modality for the application to obtain the ordinary layoff.

3 February 2012 • Insights

THE COMPENSATION IS EXTENDED OVER THE AGE OF RETIREMENT (IL SOLE 24 ORE, February 3rd, 2012, page 30)

The Court of Cassation, with sentence No. 1462 of December 20th, 2011, has stated that the damages compensation which has to be paid to the employee, in the case of reintegration in the workplace as a result of unfair dismissal, has to include not only the period between the date of dismissal and the retirement but also the subsequent periods.

27 January 2012 • Insights

GOVERNING DIRECTORS AND ASSOCIATES OF LIMITED COMPANY: DOUBLE SOCIAL SECURITY CONTRIBUTIONS

An associate of a limited company who works in the company itself and has also the position of governing director has to pay, for the first activity, the social security contribution to INPS “Gestione Commercianti” and, for the second activity, to INPS “Gestione Separata” provided for the collaborators.

27 January 2012 • Insights

Staff supply: the lack of prompt challenge is considered tacit consent of the relationship termination

The Court of Padova, labour section, with sentence of January 17th, 2012, stated that the supply worker’s behavior who does not challenge the contract promptly and accepts further work supply contracts is considered a tacit consent of the termination of the previous supply relationship.

20 January 2012 • Insights

THE REGULAR SOCIAL SECURITY CONTRIBUTIONS ARE NOT SUBJECTED TO ONESELF DECLARATION

The Ministry of Labour has saved the Sole Document of Social Security Contribution Regularity (so-called “DURC”) from the “decertification” introduced by Article 15 of Law No. 183/2011.