(Finance) – Green light from the Chamber for the labor bill. There were 158 votes in favour, 121 against. There were 2 abstentions. The measure now passes to the Senate for consideration. The provision is made up of around thirty articles. Among the most discussed areas of the provision are the innovations introduced for i supply contracts and the resignation.
As regards the first point, the bill also contains a series of simplifications. Specifically, the temporary hiring of workers cannot exceed 30% of the number of permanent workers employed by the user on 1 January of the year in which the contracts were stipulated. Excluded from the calculation of the quantitative limits are cases in which the fixed-term employment concerns workers hired by the contractor on a permanent basis or workers with certain characteristics or hired for determined needs (carrying out seasonal activities or specific shows, start-ups, replacing absent workers, workers over 50 years old).
However, the provision according to which, if the contract between supply agency and the worker is on a permanent contract, the overall duration limits – currently equal to 24 months – of the fixed-term mission to a user entity do not apply.
On topic resignationarticle 19 of the provision introduces the automatic resignation of the worker in case of unjustified absence for more than 15 days. After at least 15 days have passed, the employer must communicate it to the Labor Inspectorate, which reserves the right to verify the veracity of the communication. If this does not occur, the employer can consider the relationship terminated by the employee’s will. It is up to the worker, in this case, to demonstrate the impossibility of communicating the reasons justifying the absence and therefore to demonstrate that he has not resigned. If this does not happen, the working relationship it will be considered terminated by the will of the worker, who will lose the protections provided in the event of dismissal: as the requirement for involuntary unemployment no longer applies, he will not be able to apply for Naspi.
He criticizes the opposition according to which the provision “increases the precariousness“. At the center of the controversy is precisely the question of voluntary resignations. According to the majority, it is a way to prevent workers, by exploiting the leverage of absences unjustifiedinduce employers to dismiss them and then opportunistically access Naspi. According to the opposition, this opens the door to “blank resignations”.