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11 novembre 2011 • Insights

Court of Milan: the fixed-term employment contract for the substitution of the employee in maternity leave is valid even if the reasons of absence change

The Court of Milan, with reference to the legitimacy of a fixed-term contract for substitutive reasons, with sentence no. 5020 of October 25, 2011 clarified that the fixed-term hiring contract for the substitution of an employee in maternity leave is valid also when the absence reasons change (in this particular case, the absence continued for holidays).

4 novembre 2011 • Insights

The employee who gives false declaration in favour of the employer is not punishable for aiding and abetting

Through sentence no. 37398 of October 17, 2011, the VI Criminal Section of the Court of Cassation stated that the employee who, in order to avoid liberty restriction (incrimination and employment loss), gives false declarations that allow the employer to elude investigations, is not punishable for aiding and abetting.

28 octobre 2011 • Insights

Court of Cassation: void fixed term employment contract without conversion

Should the fixed term employment contract be null and void, the employee is not entitled to obtain the conversion into an open ended employment contract because the nullity of the provision which sets the duration carries away the entire contract.

28 octobre 2011 • Insights

The work apprenticeship

The Ministry of Labor, with the answer to the question no. 40/2011 of October 26 proposed byConfcommercio and Confartigianato, specified that the work apprenticeship disciplined by art. 4 of the Legislative Decree no. 167/2011 (which came into force on October 25) may be set up for a maximum of 5 years period not only by handicraft companies but also by company of every other sector for technical-professionale activities, also when different National Collective Labor Agreement are applied to the employees.

21 octobre 2011 • Insights

REFUNDED PRODUCTION BONUSES

The law of stability comes to Senate with a new endowment of 835 million Eur in order to fund, for the fourth year of legislature, the tax reduction applicable to the part of salary related to the productivity.

21 octobre 2011 • Insights

INPS: CALCULATION AND PAYMENT OF MATERNITY LEAVE

INPS, with note no. 19772/2011, clarified that in the calculation and payment of the days of maternity leave public holidays, Sundays and Saturdays (in the case of short week) falling during holidays, illness or other absences have not to be considered.

14 octobre 2011 • Insights

APPRENTICESHIP: CONSOLIDATED ACT PUBLISHED INTO THE OFFICIAL GAZETTE

On October 10th, 2011, the Legislative Decree No. 167/2011 (“Consolidated act of apprenticeship”), after more than two months from the approval by the Council of Ministers, was published into the Official Gazette.

14 octobre 2011 • Insights

WARNING FROM LABOR INSPECTOR WHEN THE APPRENTICE HAS A ORAL CONTRACT

The Law on the apprenticeship (Legislative Decree no. 167/11) punishes in administrative way the lack of written form of the apprenticeship contract.