To implement special measures of active, employment-maintaining labour market policy by the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance in:
a) the areas defined under Objectives 1 and 2 of EU Directives 2052/88 and 328/88 and Law 181 of 15.5.1989 (support and reindustrialisation measures by means of the implementation of the restructuring plan for the steel industry);
b) areas suffering from a serious imbalance between labour supply and demand (Art. 36, § 2, Presidential Decree 616/77).
- Law 30 of 28.2.1997 (on converting Decree-Law 669 of 31.12.1996).
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It is intended to offer degressive incentives to employers recruiting full-time workers in addition to the work-force levels prevailing at the time the law comes into force. Public and private sector firms and cooperatives in all sectors of the economy are entitled to apply for the support, provided they meet the following sets of conditions: the firm
a) is located in a region affected by a particularly severe crisis or active in a sector facing a structural crisis whose effects on the employment level are substantial;
b) is affected by delayed development or by economic depression;
c) is undergoing a process of restructuring, industrial conversion or industrial decline;
d) is affected by a serious deterioration in social, economic or environmental situation or by a lack of esteem and defence of the historical or artistic heritage.
Also entitled to claim are (public and private sector) enterprises responsible for implementing community and charitable projects lasting at least one year and which employ workers of the following categories:
1. recipients of special unemployment benefit;
2. workers registered for more than two years in category 1 of the placement lists;
3. workers registered in the "mobility lists";
4. employee categories selected on the basis of special decisions - approved by the Ministry of Labour - taken by the CRI (Regional Employment Commission).
The measures described above are to be extended to cover initiatives to provide employment for disabled workers throughout Italy.
Decrees issued by the Ministry of Labour are to define the following elements: the subjective requirements made of recruited workers, the forms on which to apply for the support, the con-di-tions and forms under which the benefit will be granted and the way in which the subsequent evaluation of the results is to be performed.
The above-mentioned benefits may be combined with the benefits provided for under both Law 223/91 (Art. 8, 20 and 25) for lay-offs and reintegration contracts and Law 407/90 (Art. 8, § 9) for training-cum-work contracts.
However, as far as the fund share (of a maximum of 10%) earmarked for young people setting up new enterprises is concerned, the legal entities listed in Article 1 of Law 44/86, namely corpora-tions, cooperatives, etc., are entitled to benefit (cf. Chapter III, I-vi.7).
The fund share (of a maximum of 10%) is earmarked for young people setting up new enterprises in the following sectors: cultural heritage, tourism, maintenance of civil and industrial buildings in the Mezzogiorno regions and within the framework of domestic social services and care for the disabled and the elderly.
3.3.4.4. Institutional support
