From April 1 they arrive new rules for smart working. The Ministry of Labor has developed them and they will flow into the Sostegni ter decree, or in any case into the first legislative container available. Because time is running out.
After March, together with the state of emergency, in Italy the mandatory smart working is archived to return to consensual agreements. The problem is that, at the moment, the rules are cumbersome and risk hindering many Italians. By now, in fact, agile work no longer concerns a minority of individuals as in the pre-Covid era, but an army of 4-5 million people.
Smart working, new rules: stop to mandatory communications
To date, the procedure envisaged by the contracts imposes "mandatory communications” also for the individual agreements on smart working, which will be drawn up starting from April XNUMXst. Millions of agreements, millions of mandatory communications: a bureaucratic nightmare.
For this reason, the new legislative intervention will entrust the Minister of Labour, Andrea Orlando, with the power to issue a decree that simplifies the life of companies and employees dealing with smart working.
Basically, it will be set up for employers a streamlined procedure, similar to that experienced during the pandemic, e there will be no obligation to transmit individual agreements.
Company or collective agreements recommended
After all, the smart working working group appointed by Orlando had already underlined that the most effective way in this field is that corporate or even collective agreementsbetween companies and trade unions in the sector. Moreover, this type of solution has already demonstrated "a propensity to foresee critical elements not yet detected by law - reads in the final report of the working group – as well as a good ability to balance the interests at stake”.
But be careful: the company or collective agreement does not bind the individual worker in any way, who remains free to opt for an individual agreement with the employer.
The organic reform of smart working being studied by the Chamber
Meanwhile, the Chamber of Deputies has been working on the comprehensive smart working reform for months, from which far more substantial changes are expected for this type of work. According to the rapporteur Maria Pallini (Movimento 5 Stelle), after weeks of hearings, a unitary text has finally been produced, on which the parties are now called to express their observations. The approval process could start next week. “The main point is the right to disconnect – explains Pallini to the newspaper La Repubblica – a time must be established beyond which the worker cannot be disturbed. We then provided incentives for the purchase of technological platforms and instrumentation, and lowered the Inail premiums to 1%.
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