Last Updated on November 10, 2023
Smart working continues to be the subject of legislative changes.
Decree Law No. 132 of 29 September 2023 has in fact extended to 31 December 2023 the right to smart working for the so-called “extra-vulnerable” public and private sector employees, namely those with serious chronic pathologies with poor clinical control and with particular connotations of seriousness (specifically identified by the Ministerial Decree of 4 February 2022). These individuals may request and obtain to work remotely also by being assigned to a different task within the same category or area of classification, without any reduction in salary.
We remind you that, until 31 December 2023, the right to smart working is also recognised for:
- parents of children under the age of 14, provided that smart working is compatible with the nature of the service and that the other parent is not on benefitting from social shock absorbers or not working;
- workers who, based on the company doctor‘s assessment, are at a greater risk of contagion by Covid-19 due to age or immunodepression, resulting from oncological diseases or ongoing life-saving therapies or, in any case, co-morbidities. Also in this case, the right is, however, recognised provided that the smart working mode is compatible with the employee’s duties.
Smart workers may also use, again until the end of the year, their own IT devices, if these are not provided by their employer.
It is, of course, still possible to resort to smart working by drawing up individual agreements between the parties and recognising, in any case, priority to requests made by workers with particular health conditions, parents of children up to 12 years old and of the disabled or who assist family members who require care
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