Green light from the Council of Ministers to "Urgent measures to protect workers in companies in crisis".
The rule provides exceptionally, for companies with a number of employees not less than a thousand that manage at least one industrial plant of national strategic interest, the granting of wage integration treatment - as per article 8 of the decree of 22 March 2021 converted, with amendments, by the law of 21 May 2021 - for a maximum of thirteen weeks usable until 31 December 2021.
Also provided for the exemption of severance pay quotas for companies in bankruptcy proceedings or in extraordinary administration.
The CDM also approved two regulations proposed by Minister Andrea Orlando. The first rule 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 provision adopted by the government, and a second rule will allow the former Ilva to access the thirteen weeks of layoffs in consideration of the strategic importance of the company.
