With a recent Law (Legislative Decree no. 72 of February 25, 2000) Italy implemented the Directive 96/71/EC of 16 December 1996 concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services. A brief summary of this Decree is set out below.
Art. 1 states that the Decree shall apply to undertakings established in a Member State of the European Union other than Italy which, in the framework of the transnational provision of services, post workers to Italy.
Art. 2 states that for the purposes of the Decree, a posted worker means a worker who, for a limited period, carries out his work in Italy and not in the State in which he normally works. The second paragraph of Art. 2 further clarifies that this limited period must be either determined or determinable from the beginning of the posting by means of reference to a future and certain event.
