Socially useful work is defined as activities in innovative sectors such as cultural heritage, environ-men-tal protection, urban renewal, research, vocational training and retraining, support for small and medium-sized enterprises in the form of services and help with marketing and exports, and personal services. The activities must be extraordinary and thus fixed-term in nature.
- various successively re-enacted decree-laws: from Decree-Law 31 of 8.2.1995 to Decree-Law 510 of 1.10.1996, converted into Law 608/96 (Art. 1).
3.3.6.3. Contents
Socially useful projects may be initiated by public bodies (cf. Art. 1 of Legislative Decree 29 of 3.2.1993: public administrations, institutions and schools of every type and level, educational establishments, regions, provinces, municipalities, universities, etc.), enterprises under majority public ownership, legal entities identified by decree of the Ministry of Labour and social coopera-tives (cf. Chapter III, I-vi.9).
Employees belonging to the following categories may be employed within the framework of socially useful work:
1. Workers registered for more than two years in category 1 of the placement lists;
2. Workers registered in the "mobility lists";
3. Employee categories selected on the basis of a ruling by the CRI (Regional Employment Com-mis-sion);
4. Redundant workers with entitlement to extraordinary benefits from the Wage Compensation Fund;
5. Redundant workers in receipt of benefits or persons receiving benefits from the Wage Com-pen-sation Fund who are no longer in receipt of welfare benefits and who may be employed on the project until its termination (though not longer than 12 months) on the basis of subsidies.
In the case of such projects, the following must be named or defined: the sponsoring body and (where they are not the same) the implementing body, the duration of the project, the categories of workers who are eligible, qualifications and qualification levels, vocational training activities - where applicable - and the proposed working hours. Appropriate accident, occupational illness and third-party liability insurance must be arranged by the organisations carrying out the project.
3.3.6.4. Financial resources
Law 608/96 provides for an increase in the Employment Fund of ITL 669 billion in 1995, around ITL 686 billion in 1996, around ITL 592 billion in 1997 and around ITL 692 billion for 1998. These increases are to primarily serve the purpose of financing socially useful work and schemes for the vocational integration of young people (cf. Chapter III, I-vi.8).
3.3.6.5. Institutional support
Proposed projects must be submitted to the relevant regional directorate in the case of regional projects and to the Ministry of Labour in the case of national or supra-regional projects.
The Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of the Civil Service are to examine the implementation of socially useful work on an annual basis.
3.3.6.6. Duration
To be considered as socially useful work, tasks must be extraordinary and fixed-term in nature
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