IPSOA Quotidiano: right to remuneration when activities close for Covid-19

IPSOA Quotidiano today published an article by Matteo Amici, Andersen lawyer, on the right to remuneration in cases where companies voluntarily close down due to a health emergency at Covid-19.

Following the Prime Ministerial Decree of March 11, 2020, in fact, many businesses had to suspend their activities with authority. Others, on the other hand, did so on their own initiative, partly because of the drastic drop in the number of customers due to restrictions on the mobility of people, partly because the size of the premises or the type of service provided made it impossible to comply with the requirements laid down to stem the spread of contagion. If, in the case of forcibly closed activities, it is established that employees who are suspended from employment are not entitled to remuneration, what is the employer who suspends the activity on his own initiative obliged to do?

In the event that the employer is not entitled to the social shock absorbers provided for by Legislative Decree no. 18/2020 (COVID ter), there is the problem of the economic treatment of employees who work in the businesses that are closed, since the vast majority of them are not able to provide the work with the modes of agile work (smart working).