. - (G.U. n. 235, 9th October 2001, Serie Generale)
Art. 1.
Fixing of limit
1.
It is allowed to fix a limit to the length of subordinate employment contracts due to technical, productive, organizational or replacement reasons.
2.
The fixing of the limit is without effect if it does not appear, either directly or indirectly, in a written act in which the reasons contained in subsection 1 are specified.
3.
A copy of the written act must be given from the employer to the employee within five working days from the beginning of the service.
4.
Writing is not necessary when the length of the employment contract, purely occasional, does not exceed twelve days.
After a long agony lasting many years, in which law N 20 1962, (which provided the very few and definite hypothesis in which it was allowed to stipulate a fixed term employment contract), has gradually crumbled thanks to the introduction of a number of normative and contractual exceptions, the new discipline of time contracts
