I-ii.6 Measures to assist employees of international haulage companies, storage firms and customs haulage firms
3.2.6.I-ii.6 Measures to assist employees of international haulage companies, storage firms and customs haulage firms (Interventi a favore dei dipendenti delle imprese di spedizione internazionale, dai maggazzini generali e dagli spedizioneri doganali)
3.2.6.1. Aim
The aim is to maintain the income levels of workers on short-time working (or zero hours) since 1.1.1993 and the social insurance cover of such workers following redundancies and labour shedding in the wake of the abolition of customs barriers and controls within the European Union on that date
3.2.6.2. Legal basis
- Decree-Law 24 of 1.2.1993;
- Decree-Law 94 of 5.4.1993;
- Decree-Law 199 of 21.6.1993, converted into Law 293 of 9.8.1993;
- subsequent extensions by decree, later converted into Law 608/96.
Given that the crisis in this sector has continued to deepen, it proved necessary to extend the aid and support measures by means of the following decree-laws:
- Decree-Law 257 of 29.7.1994;
- Decree-Law 414 of 27.6.1994;
- Decree-Law 514 of 27.8.1994;
- Decree-Law 601 of 28.10.1994;
- Decree-Law 723 of 28.12.1994.
3.2.6.3. Contents
1. For workers entering retirement in the course of 1993: provision of compensation at a level equivalent to the maximum level of benefit from the Extraordinary Wage Compensation Fund (excl. supplementary family allowances where appropriate); in cases of reduced working hours the compensation will be reduced on a pro rata basis.
2. For workers in employment on 1.1.1992 and made redundant during 1993: provision of compen-sation at the same level and for the same duration as workers entering retirement and registration in the "mobility lists".
Under Law 608/96, 1,800 workers are entitled to the above benefits.
3.2.6.4. Institutional support
Ministry of Labour and the INPS.
3.2.6.5. Duration
Benefits which have been extended several times on the basis of successive decrees may be approved for an additional year (Law 608/96, Art. 4, § 19).
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