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Italy has approved a new law regulating the participation of workers in company life. It marks a step towards more inclusive business models where the contribution of workers becomes an integral part of corporate strategy. We explore the new framework below. The Italian Senate approved the law on 14 May 2025. It regulates the forms of participation of workers in company life, implementing Article 46 of the Italian Constitution which “recognises the right of workers to collaborate,…
Employees are increasingly seeking flexible or agile working arrangements, such as remote work (from home and overseas), hybrid models and flexible hours, to improve work-life balance. However, there is a growing tension between employee preferences and employer efforts to encourage a return to the office. We explore the current trends in Italy. According to the Osservatorio Smart Working of Politecnico di Milano (the ‘Osservatorio’), smart or agile…
On 26 September 2024, Italy introduced a landmark piece of legislation aimed at enhancing workplace safety, specifically focusing on the protection of workers from substances that are toxic to reproduction. The Legislative Decree, which implements a 2022 EU Directive, expands the definition of hazardous substances in the workplace to include not only carcinogens and mutagens but also reproductive toxins — those which may affect fertility,…
On 30 June 2024, a Legislative Decree came into force that introduced important changes to national legislation on disability. This decree is the latest of several recent legislative decrees implementing the 2021 delegation law on disability, which were necessary to adapt the Italian legal system to United Nations and EU guidance on the rights of persons with disabilities. The implementing legislative decrees published to date are the following: a decree…
The Italian Data Protection Authority has adopted an updated version of a guideline document on email retention that it originally issued in December 2023, but which had been suspended. The document is entitled ‘Computer programmes and services for email management in the workplace and metadata processing’. With this document, the Data Protection Authority states that it intends to provide employers with guidelines on how to manage employee email accounts, and…
Many countries have special tax regimes designed to attract qualified staff from abroad and we will be covering some of these regimes in a series of articles. The first is Italy – for which see below to discover who can benefit and the advantages the regime can bring. Next in the series will be Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and others. The Decree replaces…
Notwithstanding the ‘love’ cited by Raymond Carver in his masterpiece, one of the main reasons why people work is the pay. You might even say that people love pay. Even if the younger generations do not base their employment decisions merely on pay (as shown by the ‘Great Resignation’ phenomenon), the latest human resources survey reports that increased salary is the primary motivation that drives Italians to look for a new job, even eclipsing the opportunity for professional growth or a more advanced role in line…
17 May was the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia established in 2007 by the European Union. The chosen date commemorates 17 May 1990, the day on which the WHO removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses, declaring it ‘a natural variation of human behaviour’. The topic concerns labour law, due to the legal ban ondiscrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identityboth during the hiring process…
The Italian Tax Authority has released new guidance clarifying how employers can use benefit packages to reward employees. In particular, the Authority has ruled that plans cannot be used to reward individual performance but only to retain employees and distribute company profits. Employee benefit packages have a growing impact on companies’ management of their resources and local tax authorities have to deal with the fiscal impact of these packages more and more. The Italian Tax Authority (Risoluzione n….
As employees return to work in Italy, this article tackles the issue of employers’ liability when an employee contracts coronavirus and when the infection will be a ‘workplace accident’. Resumption of economic activities in Italy started partially on 4 May and will be completed in the upcoming weeks, unless there is a sharp increase in infections. It will involve several measures that employers will have…