Extracurricular Internships, Penalty Provisions, and Transitional Provisions
- July 29, 2022
- Reading time: 4 min
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 guidance on the applicable penalties, as well as on any potential social security contribution recoveries resulting from internships conducted in a “fraudulent” manner.
As announced in our “ News ” of January 18, 2022, Budget Law No. 234/2021, in Article 1, paragraphs 720 through 725, introduced significant changes regarding internships, stipulating that an agreement between the Government, the Regions, and the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano—at the Permanent Conference—with the aim of adopting new Guidelines (those currently in force date back to 2017).
Based on the premise that the internship is redefined as a training program that alternates between study and work, aimed at career guidance and vocational training and capable of improving the alignment between labor supply and demand; and that, when it contributes to the attainment of a formally recognized academic degree, the internship is defined as “curricular,” the legislature has established the following criteria, which must serve as the starting point for drafting the new Guidelines:
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