Layoffs, that’s the norm (and how much it costs) after the government ballets
All the details of the new rule on layoffs – after the government reversed the approach approved in the Council of Ministers – provided for in the Sostegni bis decree. Cost: 164 million euros
What does the labor law at the center of the recent day's clash on layoffs say?
After white heat controversy, and a backtrack by the government, the rule is contained in article 40 of the decree 'Urgent measures connected to the emergency from COVID-19, for businesses, work, young people, health and local services ', the so-called Sostegni bis published today in the Official Gazette .
Here is the text of the measure, in which there is no reference to the Covid cash register and to the date of 28 August, as instead indicated last week at a press conference by the Minister of Labor, Andrea Orlando (Pd), also in the presence of Mario Draghi, after the meeting of the council of ministers that had approved the rule (but evidently few, apart from Orlando, were aware of the provision even if received by e-mail, as Orlando pointed out today).
Private employers “who, starting from the date of 1 July 2021, suspend or reduce their working activity and submit an application for a salary supplement pursuant to articles 11 and 21 of legislative decree no. 148 are exempt from the payment of the additional contribution referred to in Article 5 of the same legislative decree until 31 December 2021. The contribution benefit referred to in the first period of this paragraph is recognized within the limit of lower contribution income equal to 163.7 million euro for the year 2021 ".
Then the part on dismissals: “Employers who submit an application for wage integration pursuant to paragraph 3 are precluded from starting the procedures referred to in articles 4, 5 and 24 of the law of 23 July 1991, n. 223 for the duration of the salary supplement treatment received by 31 December 2021 and the pending procedures initiated after 23 February 2020 are also suspended in the same period, without prejudice to the cases in which the personnel affected by the withdrawal, already employed in the contract, is summarized following the takeover of a new contractor by virtue of the law, the national collective bargaining agreement or a clause in the contract. In the same period, regardless of the number of employees, the same subjects referred to in the first period are also precluded from the right to withdraw from the contract for justified objective reasons pursuant to article 3 of law no. 604 and the ongoing procedures referred to in article 7 of the same law are also suspended ".
THE ANALYSIS OF GIULIANO CAZZOLA
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/licenziamenti-ecco-la-norma-e-quanto-costa-dopo-i-balletti-del-governo/ on Wed, 26 May 2021 08:13:23 +0000.