News Flash No. 14/2025 The National Labor Inspectorate, in its Notice No. 616/2025, has clarified that it is not lawful to include monthly severance pay installments in paychecks, except in the cases provided for by law. In particular, it is emphasized that the legislation that introduced the so-called “QUIR” (supplementary pay component, introduced in 2015 through a mechanism that allowed workers in the pr sector

News No. 30/2024 Construction sites are among the most dangerous work environments, where serious—and sometimes fatal—accidents occur every year. To improve safety for workers and all professionals involved in construction sites, the government has issued a decree (Decree-Law 19/2024) establishing that, effective October 1, 2024, certain new requirements will take effect to strengthen worker safety: among these is the point-based license system for construction sites. Specifically,

News Flash No. 14/2024 The Equal Opportunity Code, which took effect in 2006, requires public and private companies with more than fifty employees to prepare a report on the gender-based employment situation every two years. This requirement remains optional, however, for companies that do not meet the aforementioned employment threshold. For the current two-year period of 2022–2023, the deadline for compliance is April 30, 2024. See

News No. 33/2022 Legislative Decree No. 104 of June 27, 2022, was published in the Official Gazzetta No. 176 of July 29, 2022 (the so-called “Transparency Decree”), implementing Directive (EU) 2019/1152 of the European Parliament and of the Council of June 20, 2019, on transparent and predictable working conditions in the European Union. Essentially, EU Directive 2019/1152 replaces and repeals Directive 91/533/EEC, which governed the obligation on the part of the

News No. 31/2022 The National Labor Inspectorate, in Note No. 1451 dated July 11, 2022, provides clarifications regarding the regulations applicable to extracurricular internships that began before and continued after the entry into force of Budget Law No. 234 of December 30, 2021, providing details regarding the applicable penalties, as well as any potential social security contribution recoveries resulting from internships conducted in a “fraudulent” manner. As previously announced in our

News No. 19/2022 In Note No. 856 dated April 19, 2022, the National Labor Inspectorate issued an updated guide on the application of penalties for undeclared work, highlighting the scope of application, the amounts, the penalties, cases of exemption, the formal notice to regularize the situation, and certain types of illegal work. The guide provides clarifications, among other things, regarding: a) Services rendered through the family work logbook; b) Collabor

News Flash No. 16/2022: The Interministerial Decree signed by the Minister of Labor in consultation with the Minister for Equal Opportunity has established new requirements for public and private companies with more than 50 employees. Companies must submit the report exclusively online, using the dedicated portal of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies, accessible at the following address: https://servizi.lavoro.gov

News No. 2/2022 Subject: Mandatory reporting to the Territorial Labor Inspectorate of occasional self-employment relationships and details on the data to be reported by January 18. Article 13 of Decree-Law No. 146/2021, converted into Law No. 215/2021, has made it mandatory to provide prior notification to the Inspectorate regarding occasional self-employed workers, in order to carry out monitoring activities and combat forms of tax evasion in the employment of such workers.

Subject: Operational Guidelines Regarding the Amendment to the Rules on Grounds for Fixed-Term Contracts Introduced by the Sostegni-bis Decree On September 14, 2021, the National Labor Inspectorate issued operational guidelines regarding the amendment—introduced by Decree No. 73/2021, converted with modifications into Law No. 106/2021 (the so-called “Sostegni-bis”), regarding the rules on grounds for fixed-term employment contracts. We remind you that this Decree has the

On the night of July 29–30, 2020, the Council of Ministers approved a state of emergency to combat and contain the epidemiological risk posed by COVID-19 through October 15, 2020. Among the various measures that will consequently be adopted and/or extended is remote work—that is, the practice of performing work outside the employer’s premises. Since the Prime Ministerial Decree of February 25, our legislature had permitted