Extension of the national state of emergency and further measures for epidemic containment
- Studio Piceci
- Dec 30, 2021
- Reading time: 3 min
More than a week after its approval, Legislative Decree No. 221/2021 was published in Official Gazzetta No. 305 on December 24, 2021. This decree enacted the government's decision to extend the national state of emergency and introduced additional measures to curb the spread of the epidemic.
The Decree entered into force on December 25.
Briefly, the following highlights some of the measures of particular interest to employers, as modified by the Decree under review.
For a detailed overview of the provision, please refer to the following link.
SMART WORKING
Legislative Decree No. 221/21 extends, until March 31, 2022, the option to use the simplified procedure for submitting smart working communications. It also allows private employers to implement this modality for any subordinate employment relationship, even without individual agreements.
Concurrently, protections for so-called vulnerable workers are extended until February 28, 2022 (cf. Article 26, paragraph 2bis, Legislative Decree 18/2020).
N.B.: Legislative Decree 221/21 stipulates that, within 30 days of its publication, a Decree by the Minister of Health, in agreement with the Ministers of Labor and Social Policies and for Public Administration, will identify "chronic pathologies with poor clinical compensation and particular severity, in the presence of which, until February 28, 2022, work performance is normally carried out, according to the regulations defined in collective agreements, where present, in smart working mode, including through assignment to a different task within the same category or classification area, as defined by current contracts, and specific professional training activities are conducted remotely".
Furthermore, the obligation of health surveillance persists for workers at higher risk of contagion, for whom the competent physician (or INAIL through its physicians) can ascertain unsuitability for the assigned task.
PARENTAL LEAVE - so-called SARS COV-2 PARENTAL LEAVE
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