Italy

Employing Workers in

Italy

Listed below is a summary of the regulation of employment in this economy, specifically as it affects the hiring and redundancy of workers and the rigidity of working hours.

The information appearing on this page was collected as part of the Doing Business project, which measures and compares regulations relevant to the life cycle of a small- to medium-sized domestic business in 183 economies. The most recent round of data collection for the project was completed in June 2011.

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Topic Answer
Difficulty of hiring
Fixed-term contracts prohibited for permanent tasks? Yes
Maximum length of a single fixed-term contract (months) 44 months - After this period a fixed-term workers acquires the right to a permanent position in the same firm (Art. 4, letter A, Title I, Section IV of the Collective Bargaining Agreement of metal workers)
Maximum length of fixed-term contracts, including renewals (months) 44
Minimum wage for a 19-year old worker or an apprentice (US$/month) 1641.4
Ratio of minimum wage to value added per worker 0.37
Rigidity of hours
Standard workday in manufacturing (hours) Most often 8 hours, but sometimes 7 if worker has a 5.5-day workweek rather than a 5-day workweek. (The law only specifies generally a 40-hour workweek.)
Minimum daily rest required by law (hours) 11 consecutive hours - Art. 7, Decree No. 66/2003
Maximum overtime limit in normal circumstances (hours) 2 hours/ day, 8 hours/week, 200 hours/year under the CBA Metalmeccanica. (Up to 260 for some kinds of work within the manufacturing industries, under Decree 66/2003). Art. 4(2) Decree 66/2003 sets a limit of 8 hours/week, averaged over a 4-month period or
Maximum overtime limit in exceptional circumstances (hours) Maximum 260 hours of overtime per year are foreseen for activities of maintenance, installation, establishments, and 280 for nautical and aeronautical repairing tasks or in nautical launching operations (Art. 29 CBA).
Premium for overtime work (% of hourly pay) 20% for overtime work during the day; between 35% and 55% for overtime work during holidays; between 40% and 75% for overtime during the night (Art. 29 as modified by a CBA integration of 2008).
50-hour workweek allowed for 2 months a year in case of a seasonal increase in production? Yes
Maximum working days per week 6.0
Premium for night work (% of hourly pay) in case of continuous operations 15%
Premium for work on weekly rest day (% of hourly pay) in case of continuous operations 50%
Major restrictions on night work in case of continuous operations? Yes
Major restrictions on weekly holiday in case of continuous operations? No
Paid annual leave for a worker with 9 months of tenure (in working days) 15.0
Paid annual leave for a worker with 1 year of tenure (in working days) 20.0
Paid annual leave for a worker with 5 years of tenure (in working days) 20.0
Paid annual leave for a worker with 10 years of tenure (in working days) 21.0
Paid annual leave for a worker with 20 years of tenure (in working days) 25.0
Paid annual leave (average for workers with 1, 5 and 10 years of tenure, in working days) 20.3
Difficulty of redundancy
Dismissal due to redundancy allowed by law? Yes
Third-party notification if 1 worker is dismissed? No
Third-party approval if 1 worker is dismissed? No
Third-party notification if 9 workers are dismissed? Yes
Third-party approval if 9 workers are dismissed? No
Retraining or reassignment obligation before redundancy? Yes
Priority rules for redundancies? Yes
Priority rules for reemployment? Yes
Redundancy costs (weeks of salary)
Notice period for redundancy dismissal (for a worker with 9 months of tenure, in salary weeks) 6.5
Notice period for redundancy dismissal (for a worker with 1 year of tenure, in salary weeks) 6.5
Notice period for redundancy dismissal (for a worker with 5 years of tenure, in salary weeks) 6.5
Notice period for redundancy dismissal (for a worker with 10 years of tenure, in salary weeks) 8.7
Notice period for redundancy dismissal (for a worker with 20 years of tenure, in salary weeks) 10.8
Notice period for redundancy dismissal (average for workers with 1, 5 and 10 years of tenure, in salary weeks) 7.2
Severance pay for redundancy dismissal (for a worker with 9 months of tenure, in salary weeks) 0.0
Severance pay for redundancy dismissal (for a worker with 1 year of tenure, in salary weeks) 0.0
Severance pay for redundancy dismissal (for a worker with 5 years of tenure, in salary weeks) 0.0
Severance pay for redundancy dismissal (for a worker with 10 years of tenure, in salary weeks) 0.0
Severance pay for redundancy dismissal (for a worker with 20 years of tenure, in salary weeks) 0.0
Severance pay for redundancy dismissal (average for workers with 1, 5 and 10 years of tenure, in salary weeks) 0.0
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