September always brings a breath of fresh air to the world of work, and here it is A series of hiring incentives begins, valid throughout 2024 until December 2025. Everything stems from the application of the cohesion law, which came into force in mid-summer and which finds its starting point this month. The privileged beneficiaries of the legislation are the under-35s and women, but there is no shortage of specific measures for the South.
The new law is the result of the cooperation of different ministries: Labor, Economy and Finance, South and European Affairs. The result of this synergy is the synthesis of already existing measures inserted into a new “container” which, for the sake of simplicity, we will divide as follows: bonuses for young people, bonuses for women, incentives for self-employment and concessions for the South.
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The aim is to reduce the gap between the North and the South, to enhance the territory through employment and training., stimulate entrepreneurs to hire by improving individual skills and opportunities offered by technology, encouraging self-employment.
The law of cohesion
Entered into the Official Journal in July 2024, the cohesion law is presented as a series of apparently different “regulatory packages”, which identify different beneficiaries but which have a only common denominator: reducing the current and persistent gap between the North and the South in the world of work. An atavistic problem, a concern of the ruling class since the creation of Italy. Today, however, the goal seems more accessible than in the past thanks to the mixture of pre-existing and already tested rules and the new impetus given by the training of specialized professional figures.
In fact, the law brings together the labor standards already contained in the PNRR, the recovery and resilience plan agreed with Europe; GOL Program (Guarantee of Employability of Workers) born in 2020 and valid until 2025; Resto al Sud, a 2019 program created with the aim of promoting entrepreneurial and independent activities in the South. To name only the best known. The element of absolute The novelty is the new orientation of these measures, now aiming to favor so-called “strategic” sectors:
- water resources
- Infrastructure for hydrogeological risk and environmental protection
- waste
- transport and sustainable mobility
- energy
- digital and green transitions
Another common point of the new law is the desire to favor hiring with stable contractsseasonal or intermittent businesses or types of work are therefore automatically excluded.
Bonuses for young people and women, the prospect of stability
They are called “bonuses” for young people and women with an inappropriate definition. They will certainly be the final beneficiaries of these measures but, in the first instance, it is the employers who will benefit from the hiring advantages. Those who since September 1 they will hire people under 35 with a subordinate contract they will be exempt from paying 100% of their social security contributions for 2 years, up to 500 euros per month for each worker. If the headquarters or workplace is located in a southern region, the exemption reaches 650 euros.
The same request is granted to employers who, still from September 1, They will hire women of all ages on a permanent basis as long as they are:
- unemployed for at least 6 months and residing in a SEZ (Special Economic Zone) in the South
- unemployed for at least 24 months, regardless of where they live
The push to the South comes through self-employment
Unemployed people who are not yet 35 years old on September 1 and who wish to create a business in one of the strategic sectors will be able to benefit from the100% exemption from payment of social security contributions (excluding bonuses and INAIL) up to 800 euros for each worker hired, provided that he or she is also under 35 years of age at the time of hiring, for a total period of 3 years.
Reserved exclusively for companies in the South, regardless of their age and production sector, as long as the workplace or head office is located in the SEZ zone, the law is being expanded and offers a total exemption from the payment of contributions for 24 months.
