Extension of the Covid redundancy fund to 31 December 2021, with layoffs freeze

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01 November 2021 New extension for the redundancy block, with further additional weeks until 31 December, for all workers in the tertiary sector, crafts, small businesses and three industrial sectors: textiles, clothing and leather goods.

It was the Fiscal Decree 2022 published in the Official Gazette on 21 October that ordered the new extension of the Covid redundancy fund until 31 December 2021, effectively blocking redundancies in all companies that require the Cig, after having used all the weeks available to them.

Until 31 December, employers will still be able to use the Covid fund (without additional contributions): for a

for small businesses in the service sector, trade and artisans, for a 

in the textile-clothing-leather goods sectors. By using the social safety net, companies cannot, of course, lay off (unless collective agreements with trade unions, or in cases of cessation of activity and bankruptcy). 

The appropriate and composite reform of the social safety nets will then find its place in the 2022 Budget Law.

The provision was included in the Fiscal Decree, on the proposal of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policies, after the requests for intervention arrived from

very affected by smart working and almost at the end of the Cig weeks available to them.

The

 announced, in mid-October, during the question time at the Chamber of Deputies, the extension of the Cig Covid anticipating the Fiscal Decree, also speaking of the

: "It is under consideration, in this moment, the opportunity to intervene with an

for companies that have completed the weeks that can be authorized in October 2021. To this end, the Ministry of Labor has proposed an ad hoc regulation which, hopefully, should be included in the tax decree soon to be issued. With this it is proposed to refinance a further 13 weeks of layoffs with COVID causal until 31 December, without additional contribution, also in order to manage the gradual exit from the layoff block, on the basis of what was done at the end of June, when it ended. (except for the textile-fashion sector), the blocking of the acts of withdrawal in the industrial and construction sectors ".

In addition, Minister Orlando highlighted to protect workers that:" In the absence of an extension of emergency shock absorbers,

that, in the aforementioned sectors, which certainly include that of the company canteen,

, currently beneficiaries of income support, in constant relationship,

".