The Council of Ministers approved two rules proposed by the Minister of Labor Orlando: the first allows Embraco access in full for free to the extension of the fund for termination of six months, thus removing the resistance on the part of the bankruptcy trustee to use the recent measure adopted by the Government; the second will allow the former Ilva to access the thirteen weeks of layoffs in consideration of the strategic importance of the company.
Meanwhile, still today, the Council of Ministers has adopted “Urgent measures to protect the workers of companies in crisis”. The text provides for two rules. Here they are.
Decisions on severance pay
The proposed legislation allows companies in bankruptcy proceedings or in extraordinary administration, which request extraordinary salary integration from 1 July to 31 December 2021, the possibility of being exempted from the payment of the severance pay provisions relating to the remuneration lost following the hourly reduction or suspension from work and the so-called dismissal contribution. This is an extension of the effectiveness of the measure referred to in article 43-bis of decree-law no. 109/2018.
Covid cashier
Covid cashier integration. The rule provides exceptionally, for companies with a number of employees of not less than a thousand who manage at least one industrial plant of national strategic interest, the granting of the wage supplement treatment referred to in Article 8, paragraph 1 of Decree 22 March 2021, n. 41, converted, with modifications, by law 21 May 20221, n. 69, for a maximum duration of a further thirteen weeks usable until 31 December 2021.