Extracurricular internships, sanctioning profiles and intertemporal regime

News no. 31/2022

The National Labour Inspectorate, with Note No. 1451 of 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 clarifications regarding the applicable sanctions, as well as any contribution recoveries resulting from internships carried out in a “fraudulent” manner.

As announced in our News of January 18, 2022, Budget Law No. 234/2021, in Article 1, paragraphs 720 to 725, introduced important innovations regarding internships, stating that within 180 days of its entry into force, an agreement should have been reached between the Government, the Regions and the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano, at the Standing Conference, in order to adopt new Guidelines (the ones still in force date back to 2017).

Starting from the statement that the internship is redefined as a training path of alternating study and work aimed at orientation and vocational training also capable of improving the matching of labor demand and supply and that, if it is functional to the achievement of a formally recognized qualification, the internship is defined as “curricular”, the legislator has defined the following criteria that must be the starting point for the drafting of the new Guidelines:

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