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Latest news on tenders following the conversion into law of Decree-Law No. 19/2024 of March 2nd, 2024 on “Further Urgent Provisions for the Implementation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR)”

By means of Law No. 56 of April 29th, 2024, which was published in the Italian Official Gazette No. 100 of April 30th, 2024, and came into force on the following May 1st, the Decree-Law No. 19 of March 2nd, 2024 has been approved and converted into law.

Social Security Agreement between Italy and Japan become effective from April 1st, 2024: the Italian Social Security Institute has published operating instructions. An accelerator for Italian – Japanese relationships.

After years of awaiting, the Agreement on Social Security signed between Italy and Japan (hereafter the “Agreement”) finally and fully enters into force, allowing the enhancement not only of commercial trades but also of know-how between the two countries. Beyond that, the main benefit of this deal will be to exempt posted workers to and from Japan from social security contribution obligations in the country where the work is being carried out – by de facto – ceasing the double social security taxation applied up to now by reducing the labor costs of posted personnel.

Signed the renewal of the collective agreement for the tertiary, distribution, and services sector: recognition of the one-off payment and contractual increases among the main new provisions

On March 22, 2024, u.s. Confcommercio, Filcams Cgil, Fisascat Cisl and Uiltucs Uil (hereinafter “the Parties”), signed the agreement for the renewal of the National Collective Labour Agreements (NCLA) Commerce, for employees of Tertiary, Commerce, Distribution, and Services Confcommercio companies that expired on 31/07/ 2019. This renewal is particularly important as it covers more than 2 million workers.