The professionals' fees will be valid only if "proportional to the quantity and quality of the work performed". This is the principle at the basis of fair compensation, one of the innovations introduced via amendment in the tax decree that received the green light in the first reading in the Senate on Thursday. The transition to Montecitorio should be practically armored, given that there is time until December 15 for the conversion into law, under penalty of forfeiture of the provision. For this reason, the Bureau of the Budget Committee of the Chamber has undertaken to conclude the examination by Friday, December XNUMXst and has already drawn up the work schedule.
The rule on fair compensation concerns 4 and a half million people: not only lawyers (as was envisaged in the first version of the decree), but also architects, accountants, surveyors or nurses. All professionals, whether registered with a professional order, college or association, fall within the scope of the new rules.
Furthermore, fair compensation applies both when the worker performs a service for a private company and when the client is the public administration.
"It is a commitment made with professionals to eradicate a real intellectual illegal hiring - underlined the Minister of Justice, Andrea Orlando - In addition to the extension to all professions, the text approved with favorable opinions from the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Economy and Finance (General Accounting) introduces into our legal system the principle that the Public Administration must recognize fair compensation to professionals. A commitment that, albeit with difficulty and amidst a thousand resistances, we are pursuing and which we will approve before the end of the legislature. We owe it to the Italian professionals”.
Maurizio Del Conte, president of the National Agency for Active Labor Policies (Anpal), however believes that it is a "mess" with several "implementation problems". The doubts mainly concern the possibility of derogating from some rules on fair compensation in the event of an agreement between the client and the professional, who could therefore be pushed to accept a downward compromise in order not to give up work.
