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If your weekly rest period (generally 2 consecutive days, including the 12-hour daily rest between shifts) coincides with a public holiday (14 days per year), you would be entitled to recover that lost rest day. This is because all employees are entitled both to a weekly rest period and to 14 public holidays per year. Example: If an employee always has Thursdays and Fridays off and one of those days coincides with a public holiday, and they are not given the opportunity to recover it, they would effectively be entitled to fewer public holidays than employees who, for example, rest on Saturdays and Sundays, because Saturdays are almost never public holidays. Supreme Court - April 30, 2025

Starting on December 5, 2027, companies with work centers employing more than 200 workers or 100 workers per shift will be required to draw up a Sustainable Workplace Mobility Plan (Plan). This Plan must be prepared together with the Legal Representation of the Workers and, if none exists, with the most representative trade unions and those most representative in the sector that are entitled to negotiate the applicable collective agreement. The Plan must include measures to promote (examples): (i) Active mobility (walking, cycling, etc.) (ii) Use of public transport (metro, bus, etc.) (iii) Mobility using low-emission vehicles (iv) Shared/collaborative mobility (e.g., sharing an electric car) (v) Provision of charging facilities for zero-emission vehicles (vi) Promotion of teleworking (vii) Training in road safety and accident prevention during commutes to the workplace It must also include measures concerning access to the work center by visitors, suppliers, and others. In high-occupancy work centers (more than 1,000 workers in municipalities with over 500,000 inhabitants), measures must be implemented to reduce workers’ mobility during peak hours or throughout the working day. Every 2 years, a monitoring report on the effectiveness of the Plan must be prepared. Law 9/2025, of December 3, on Sustainable Mobility.

The next targets of the Labor Inspectorate for 2025-2027. They will mainly check: The fraudulent use of temporary contracts, indefinite but discontinuous contracts, and especially terminations done during probationary periods (apparently their number has significantly increased since the reduction of the type of temporary contracts). Working time registers and compliance with the time off regulations (still waiting for the creation of a new mandatory digital working time register interconnected with the Labor Inspectorate). Prevention of work-related cancer and the application of a gender perspective to the health and safety measures and special attention to the psychosocial risks. The impact of AI at the workplace, preventing the related discrimination. Fraudulent use of Social Security pensions (unemployment, sick leave, etc.) and underpayment of contributions. Click to read the complete Labor Inspectorate Strategic Plan.