By 1 June each year, companies must provide their employees with social welfare options worth €200, to be used by 31 May of the following year.
These amounts are all-inclusive and are expressly excluded from the basis for calculating severance payments.
The following employees, after the probation period, are eligible for these benefits if they are in employment on 1 June of each year or if they are hired by 31 December of each year on:
- an open-ended contract;
- a fixed-term contract that has already been in effect for at least three months, even if not consecutive, during the year (1 January-31 December).
Employees on unpaid leave or leave without any allowance between 1 June and 31 December of each year are excluded from these benefits.
The amounts indicated above cannot be calculated proportionally for part-time employees and are inclusive only of any tax or contribution costs payable by the company.
Workers also have the option to allocate the amounts in question, each year, to the Cometa or Metasalute funds, in accordance with the rules for these funds, provided the total cost for the company does not exceed €200 for each year.
