Background information

With the Decree Law No. 18/2020 of 17 March 2020 the Italian Government intervened in order to provide a reward to workers that during the month of March 2020, despite the warning related to the COVID-19 outbreak, needed anyway to go to their workplaces, exposing themselves to an higher degree of risk with respect to those that had the possibility to work from home.This reward was granted in form of a special bonus to be added to the workers' ordinary monthly wage of March 2020.

Content of measure

The measure introduced a special reward for dependent workers who have worked in the month of March at their workplaces, instead then from home. The reward amounts to €100 and is granted to dependent workers which have earned a gross yearly labour income below €40,000 in 2019. The reward has the same amount both for full-time and part-time employees, and is calculated in proportion to the number of days in the month the employee actually workers at its workplace. The bonus will be paid automatically by employers starting from April 2020 and in any case by the end of 2020.

Use of measure

No information available

Target groups

Workers	Businesses	Citizens
Employees in standard employment	Does not apply to businesses	Does not apply to citizens

Actors and funding

Actors	Funding
National government Company / Companies	National funds

Social partners

Social partners' role in designing the measure and form of involvement:

	Trade unions	Employers' organisations
Role	No involvement	No involvement
Form	Not applicable	Not applicable

Social partners' role in the implementation, monitoring and assessment phase:

• Unknown
• Main level of involvement: Unknown

Involvement

N/A

Views and reactions

Social partners were not involved in the decision making process.

Sources

• 17 March 2020: DECRETO-LEGGE 17 marzo 2020, n. 18 (www.normattiva.it)