Background information

The Budget Law for the year 2021 (Law no. 178, issued on 30 December 2020) established a new national program called "Employability Guarantee for Workers" within the realm of active labour market policies. The program aims at fostering the employability and the integration into the labour market of unemployed workers.

Content of measure

The new national program called “Employability Guarantee for Workers” aims at introducing a series of active labour market policies aiming at fostering the employability and the integration into the labour market of unemployed workers. Within the EU Commission program “React EU”, the Budget Law allocated €233 million to the Employability Guarantee to finance activation measures admissible according to the React EU plan. By 60 days since the issue of the Law, the Ministry for Labour and Social Policies, together with the Ministry for Economy and Finance, have to present a plan specifying (art. 1 c. 324):

• the active labour market policies to implement;
• the relating beneficiaries;
• the procedures to ensure the respect of the budgetary cap;
• the characteristics of the services to provide;
• the timing and the modality of provision of activation service.

Further €267 million are instead allocated to finance the relocation allowance (art. 1 c. 325), a financial support provided to support unemployed workers in their active search for a job. It is based on a voucher system: the beneficiaries receiving the vouchers can use these vouchers to buy customised and individual employment support services at any public employment centre or at private accredited centres. Unlike in the past, also unemployed workers receiving payroll subsidies, unemployment allowances or the citizenship basic income are eligible to get the relocation allowance.

Use of measure

The measure has been introduced on 30 December 2020. Data on its application are not available yet.

Target groups

Workers	Businesses	Citizens
Applies to all workers	Does not apply to businesses	Does not apply to citizens

Actors and funding

Actors	Funding
National government Public employment service	European Funds National funds National Recovery and Resilience Facility

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:

• No involvement
• Main level of involvement: N/A

Involvement

The social partners have not been involved.

Views and reactions

The social partners have not been involved.

Sources

• 30 December 2020: Official Gazette (www.gazzettaufficiale.it)