Uncertainties remain on the future of the Italian freezing of redundancies.
The government is currently evaluating various hypotheses.
The “Decreto Sostegni”, currently, extends the prohibition on dismissal (paragraphs 9 and 10, art.8, DL 41/2021):
- till June 30th 2021 for workers of companies with ordinary and extraordinary CIG (especially industry and agriculture)
- till October 31st 2021 for workers of companies covered by instruments in derogation (especially tertiary sector)
The following are still excluded from the prohibition:
- corporate collective agreement
- expansion contract
- reinstatement for change of contract
- bankruptcy
- definitive termination of the company’s business (which does not involve the transfer of a company or one of its branches)
- just-cause dismissal
- dismissal for disciplinary reasons
- dismissal for exceeding the grant period of illness
- dismissal for failure to pass the probationary period
- dismissal for reaching age for the use of the old-age pension
- dismissal for unfitness for duties
- dismissal of the domestic worker
- dismissal of the manager (even if a recent jurisprudential orientation is contrary)
- the termination of the apprenticeship at its expiration date
- consensual employment terminations and resignations for just cause
