News Flash No. 14/2025 The National Labor Inspectorate, in its note No. 616/2025, has clarified that it is not legitimate to pay monthly severance pay installments in the paycheck, outside of the cases provided for by law. In particular, it is emphasized that the legislation that introduced the so-called "QUIR" (supplementary remuneration, introduced in 2015 through a mechanism that allowed workers in the pr

News . 30/2024 Construction sites are among the most dangerous workplaces, where serious, sometimes fatal, accidents occur every year. To increase the safety of workers and all professionals involved in construction sites, the government has issued a Decree (DL 19/2024) establishing the entry into force on October 1, 2024, of several new obligations to strengthen worker safety, including a points-based license for construction sites. To be precise

News Flash No. 14/2024 The Equal Opportunities Code, which came into force in 2006, requires public and private companies with more than fifty employees to draw up a report on the employment situation in terms of gender every two years. This requirement remains optional for companies that do not meet the aforementioned employment threshold.   For the current two-year period 2022-2023, the obligation expires on April 30, 2024. Ved

News 33/2022 Legislative Decree no. 104 of June 27, 2022, implementing Directive (EU) 2019/1152 of the European Parliament and of the Council of June 20, 2019, on conditions for access to information on the environment, transparency in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters, was published in Gazzetta no. 176 of July 29, 2022 (the so-called Transparency Decree) was published, 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. EU Directive 2019/1152 essentially replaces and repeals Directive 91/533/EEC, which governed the obligation, on the part of

News . 31/2022 The National Labor Inspectorate, with Note no. 1451 of July 11, 2022, provides clarification on 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 explanations on the applicable penalties, as well as any contribution recoveries resulting from internships carried out in a "fraudulent" manner. As announced in our

News . 19/2022 In note no. 856 of April 19, 2022, the National Labor Inspectorate prepared an updated handbook on the application of penalties for undeclared work, highlighting the scope of application, amounts, penalties, cases of exclusion, warnings to regularize, and some types of illegal work. The handbook provides clarification, among other things, with regard to: a) Services provided through the family booklet; b) Collaboration

News Flash No. 16/2022 The Interministerial Decree signed by the Minister of Labor in agreement with the Minister for Equal Opportunities has defined new obligations 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, which can be accessed at the following address: https://servizi.lavoro.gov

News 2/2022 Subject: Mandatory notification to the Territorial Labor Inspectorate of occasional self-employment relationships and specific details on the data to be communicated by January 18 Article 13 of Decree Law no. 146/2021, converted into Law no. 215/2021, has made it mandatory to notify the Inspectorate in advance of occasional self-employed workers, in order to monitor and combat forms of evasion in the employment of such workers.

Subject: Operational guidelines relating to the amendment of the rules on grounds for fixed-term contracts introduced by the Sostegni-bis Decree On September 14, 2021, the National Labor Inspectorate published operational guidelines relating to the amendment introduced by Decree No. 73/2021, converted with amendments into Law No. 106/2021 (known as Sostegni-bis), to the rules governing the reasons for fixed-term contracts. We remind you that this Decree has the

On the night between July 29 and 30, 2020, the Council of Ministers approved a state of emergency to combat and contain the epidemiological risk posed by COVID-19 until October 15, 2020. Among the various measures that will be adopted and/or extended as a result is smart working, i.e., the practice of working outside the employer's premises. Since the Prime Ministerial Decree of February 25, our legislature had allowed