17 March 2011: national holiday for the 150th anniversary of the Unity of Italy

The Council of Ministers with a decree law confirmed the decision made in April last year that the event of the 150th anniversary of the Unity of Italy be celebrated with a holiday.

The Council of Ministers with a decree law confirmed the decision made in April last year that the event of the 150th anniversary of the Unity of Italy be celebrated with a holiday. Therefore, Thursday 17 March of this year will be a holiday for all effects and purposes (as per Italian law 260/49) and anyone who has to work on that day shall receive the contractual overtime pay for a holiday. However, to ensure the “financial neutrality of the event” the economic effects, judicial and contractual institutions of the holiday of 4 November shall be transferred to 17 March, with the consequence that the cancelled Armed Forces holiday will remain a normal day and will be celebrated the following Sunday (editor’s note: 6 November).

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Taxes on the fund for self-assessment

By 16 February 2011 employers must pay the insurance premiums resulting from self-assessment for the 2010 balance and 2011 advance payment. Remuneration actually paid must be communicated to Inail (Italian Institute for Insurance Against Industrial Accidents), unless this is done electronically, in which case the deadline for submitting wage statements is postponed until 16 March of this year.

By 16 February 2011 employers must pay the insurance premiums resulting from self-assessment for the 2010 balance and 2011 advance payment. Remuneration actually paid must be communicated to Inail (Italian Institute for Insurance Against Industrial Accidents), unless this is done electronically, in which case the deadline for submitting wage statements is postponed until 16 March of this year.

Artisan firms which did not employ workers in 2010 or which only employed workers with apprentice contracts, are exempt from having to submit wage statements.

Failure to submit wage statements is punished with an administrative sanction of 770 euro which can be rectified by paying the reduced amount of 250 euro.

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2011 CUD (single income certificate) form

The deadline is 28 February for companies to deliver or send, including digitally, the CUD form to employees.

The deadline is 28 February for companies to deliver or send, including digitally, the CUD form to employees. The certificate is related to income paid in 2010 and related withholding, as well as sums for which social security was paid. The main new features of the 2010 income certificate primarily involve the tax abatement for bonuses, as defined by Italian Legislative Decree no. 93/08 and the management of suspended taxes for those who are resident in the areas affected by the earthquake in Abruzzo.

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Information sheet for the disabled

The information sheet for the disabled, required under Law No. 68/89, must be submitted between 15 and 31 January 2011.

The information sheet for the disabled, required under Law No. 68/89, must be submitted between 15 and 31 January 2011. The submission time frame has been shortened, according to the Ministry of Labour, to offset the technical time necessary to update the software application that allows employers to complete this form online. Companies which employed at least 15 staff members at 31 December 2010 are required to complete and submit this form (companies which employed between 15 and 35 staff members are required to submit the form only if they hired a new staff member after the 15th). Decree Law No. 112/08 (converted by Law No. 133/08) has partially modified the regulations on the obligation to submit the form, giving employers the option to not resubmit the sheet if no changes have taken place since the previous year that would imply a change in the obligation to hire disabled persons.

 

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Companies join the fight against stress

The permanent consulting commission on health and safety on the workplace, composed, according to article 6 of Legislative Decree 81/08, of representatives of the Ministry, the Regions and the social partners, has completed the methodological instructions for implementing the agreement on work-related stress, signed on 8 October 2004.

The permanent consulting commission on health and safety on the workplace, composed, according to article 6 of Legislative Decree 81/08, of representatives of the Ministry, the Regions and the social partners, has completed the methodological instructions for implementing the agreement on work-related stress, signed on 8 October 2004.

The Commission specified that the assessment of the stress factor must be made during the normal assessment of workplace risks. Furthermore, it also established that the assessment must be made using a methodological procedure that accounts for both the significant differences – in size, risk and organization – in various businesses and the fact that not all signs of employee stress at work can be considered stress due to work-related causes.

At this point, the final step is implementing the instructions provided by the Commission which – despite being published as a “memo”  – represent an addendum to the legal regulations and are expressly cited therein.

 

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The disabled worker form is given a 15 day extension

The Ministry of Labour issued a memo on 31 January 2011, informing users that the term for submitting the disabled worker report form, originally due by 31 January, has been extended to 15 February 2011.

The Ministry of Labour issued a memo on 31 January 2011, informing users that the term for submitting the disabled worker report form, originally due by 31 January, has been extended to 15 February 2011.

 

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