WORKING CONDITIONS

WORKING CONDITIONS
Employer and employee contract between them, and working conditions, which must take into account the provisions of the national collective agreement for domestic work, unless they are not more favorable to the worker. The conditions of contract are as follows:

1) DUTIES AND CATEGORY CLASSIFICATION
On the basis of tasks, it will classify the worker in a specific category of domestic work:
LEVEL:
providers of general work, not carers of people, and those engaged purely manual or fatigue, lacking professional experience or professional experience not exceeding 12 months. (eg employee cleaning, roadside garden maintenance work, help with kitchen, laundry worker, groom, care for pets.) employees carrying out their duties under direct supervision of the employer.

Level A Super:
- Involved in the company of people self-sufficient, without making any provision of labor
- Baby sitter with occasional tasks and / or only occasional supervision of children.

LEVEL B:
Workers with experience, who perform tasks involving specific skills even at the executive level (eg, multifunctional employee, waiter, custodian, bus driver).Level B Super: -
- Providing care for themselves (elderly or children) with activities related to the needs of food and household cleaning

Level C:
Workers who operate with complete autonomy and responsibility in the possession of specific knowledge base, both theoretical and technical (chef)

Level C Super:
- Providing care for dependents not possess any professional degree (carer), including activities related to the need for accommodation and meals and cleaning the house of assisted

LEVEL:
workers, who hold a professional certificate, which, with full decision
-making autonomy and accountability of the house to follow the menage explicit instructions of the employer (eg, teachers, child care worker, housekeeper, butler, chief cook);

Level D Super: -
Assistant for dependent persons in possession of a vocational diploma or a certificate recognized by specific state or public entities (eg registered nurse generic, geriatric care);-

Director of house
The national collective agreement identifies two additional categories of domestic workers:Benefits only waiting night: the staff is hired to ensure only the presence night and not care, at a time falls between the hours of 21 and 8 am. Night shift personal care: nursing staff are not hired to assist the young, elderly, handicapped or sick, erratic or intermittently at a time falls between the hours of 20 and 8 am. The recent reform of the labor market has introduced the category of occasional domestic worker, who plays "small domestic work overtime, including home care to children and the elderly, sick or disabled." It includes only certain types of workers identified in detail by law, their activities can not last for more than 30 days per year for an annual fee up to 5 thousand dollars.

2) FOOD AND LODGING
The employee must be paid on the so-called partner in lieu of remuneration for board and lodging, an amount that goes to compensate for what the law considers a hardship: the ability to enjoy food and accommodation independently.The value of conventional food and accommodation allowance is determined annually and can be found on the site INPS www.inps.it than on that of the Department of Labor www.welfare.gov.itIl worker living with the employer work is entitled to a daily allowance, calculated annually by INPS for 2008 equal to € 4.773 (1.666 meal, 1.441 overnight).

3) WORKING HOURS
For staff who lives with the employer the working time is fixed by the employer, while for those who provide half the service (at least 4 hours per day) or work at, the time will be agreed between the parties. In particular, the national contract for domestic work sets certain limits on working time: - For workers living with up to 10 hours a day non
-consecutive (and maximum 54 hours per week) and for not living up 8 hours a day non-consecutive (and maximum 40 hours per week to be distributed over 5 or 6 days).Workers living in Grade levels C, B, B Super, and students aged between 16 and 40 years attending courses which provide in their completing the issuance of a certificate recognized by the State, can work for up to 30 hours week. Working hours must be placed entirely between 6 and 14 or between 14 and 22, or for a maximum of 10 hours a day in no more than three days a week. The employee has the right partner to rest for at least 11 consecutive hours the same day and a break, unpaid, usually in the afternoon, no less than 2 hours. E 'can be agreed to recover hours not worked, for no more than 2 hours daily, from time pay as normal and not extraordinary.The work that exceeds the stipulated maximum period should be considered overtime. The hourly rate payable to the worker in case of work that exceeds the stipulated maximum period should be increased as follows:
• extraordinary work performed between the hours of 6 am to 22 = 25% increase
• Special night: work performed between the hours of 22 am to 6 = 50% increase4)

WEEKLY
The Italian Constitution recognizes the inalienable right of workers to a weekly rest. The day of solemn rest is usually on Sundays, but may change if the employee professed a religious faith that provides for the solemnization in a different day.

National holidays
The law recognizes the employee the right to rest and to pay for public holidays: 1st and 6th January, Easter Monday, 25 April, 1 May, 2 June, 15 August, 1 November, 8, 25 and 26 December , and day of the patron saint of the place where he plays the employment relationship. If work performance during the national holidays, the pay should be increased by 60%.Work during the holidays and days' rest if they were requested performance of work for the unpredictable needs that can not otherwise be met, on days of rest on Sundays and holidays (or other solemn day) or weekly rest day is not a solemn the hourly wage to be paid to the employee must be increased as follows:
• work carried out in the weekly day of rest not solemn increase of 40%
• work performed on Sunday or holiday: more than 60%.

6) THE SALARY
The salary basis: the parties can not agree under any circumstances be less than the contractual minimum wage established by law.

Minimum wage from 1 January 2008
TABLE A WORKERS LIVING (monthly values)
A 557.92
AS 659.36
B 710.08
BS 760.80
C 811.52
CS 862.24
1014.40 + 150.00 Q compensation
DS allowance 1065.12 + 150.00

TABLE C WORKERS NOT LIVING (hourly values)

A 4.06
AS 4.77 5.07
B BS 5.38
C 5.68
CS 5.98
D 6.90
DS 7.20

The minimum wage is reassessed every year, the updated values are available on the site INPS www.inps.it than on that of the Department of Labor www.welfare.gov.it. For each two years of service employment with the same employer as working one step length equal to 4% of salary effective.Thirteenth: domestic workers entitled to an additional monthly pay, in every respect equal to the monthly remuneration agreed to be paid by the month of December for Christmas. If the benefits do not reach one year of service will be paid monthly twelfths as there are many months of employment.Night work: Work carried out between 22 pm and 6 am shall be considered night work and must be compensated by an increase of 20% of the hourly wage agreed. In the case of work by the hour, is considered night work that played for at least 7 consecutive hours, covering the period between midnight and five in the morning.