Cassa integrazione guadagni staordinaria – “cigs”

(special redundancy fund)

 

WHO IS ENTITLED

The special redundancy fund (CIGS) is due to bluecollar wokers, whitecollar workers and managerial staff in case of restructuring, reorganization, changeovers, crisis and in the case of bankruptcy proceedings of:

  • industrial companies also in the construction sector, contractor companies of refectory or restaurant services and of cleaning services. They must have employed more than 15 workers in the six-months period before the filing of the application;
  • commercial, expedition and transport companies, travel agencies, employing more than 50 workers, excluding apprentices and workers employed with “contratto di formazione e lavoro”;
  • security service companies.

The special provision can not be requested for those sites, for which the ordinary provision has been requested in the same period.

 

SHIFTS  

The choice of the workers to be placed in CIGS has to be effected on the basis of shifts between workers with the same tasks.

If the company does not deem it possible to apply shifts, the reasons have to be indicated in the application for the admittance to the special redundancy fund treatment (trattamento speciale di Cassa integrazione).

 

THE APPLICATION  

It must be submitted to the local “Centro per l’impiego” ( Public Job Center ) within 25 days from the end of the pay period in course during the week in which the suspension or reduction of the work time has begun.

The application has to contain the recovery program the company intends to carry out, the restructuring or changeover project, the accounting and the financial standing of the last three years.

 

THE AMOUNT  

The amount corresponds to 80% of the global wage due for the working hours which have not been effected.

The amount of the ordinary treatment can not exceed a monthly maximum limit, fixed on a yearly basis (for 2005 it is of € 819,62 and is raised to € 985,10 in case of monthly wages over € 1.745,40).

Said amounts are reduced of a rate, which at present is of 5,54%.

The CIG periods are valid for the right to pension and for its amount.

 

FOR HOW LONG  

The CIGS lasts for a maximum of 12 months for a company crisis, of 24 months for company reorganization, restructuring or changeover, of 18 months in case of bankruptcy procedures.

The sum of ordinary and special provisions can not exceed 36 moths within a five-year period. Further, there are different laws, also with provisional effects, which have changed the above indicated time limits.

 

SUSPENSION AND WITHDRAWAL

If the CIGS recipient performs a paid activity without a preventive communication to the respective INPS headquarters, he loses the right to the benefit.

In case of preventive communication, the benefit is suspended for the duration of the activity.

 

 

 

 

 

(traduzione basata su materiale informativo sintetico tratto dal sito Internet dell’INPS)