{"id":343620,"date":"2024-03-08T12:02:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T11:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/03\/08\/italia-infrazione-giudici-tributari\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T12:48:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T11:48:56","slug":"italy-at-risk-of-infringement-proceedings-for-discrimination-against-lay-tax-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/03\/08\/italy-at-risk-of-infringement-proceedings-for-discrimination-against-lay-tax-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy at risk of infringement proceedings for discrimination against lay tax judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; Italy is at risk of infringement proceedings for discrimination against tax judges and national rules\u00a0that may not conform to EU standards. The European Commission is turning the spotlight on the country after pressure from Aldo Patriciello (FI\/EPP), who asked for an explanation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/doceo\/document\/E-9-2024-000158_IT.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in a parliamentary question<\/a>. The EU executive is\u00a0taking a serious look at the situation, and possible calls to order cannot be ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Commission recently received several complaints from lay tax judges,&#8221; said\u00a0<strong>Nicolas Schmit<\/strong>, European Commissioner for Labor and Social Affairs, in his response. The complainants, Schmit admits, &#8220;raise <strong>questions of discrimination<\/strong>\u00a0in respect\u00a0of\u00a0working conditions, including remuneration, annual leave and social security protection.&#8221; As a result of\u00a0the complaints, Brussels took action, turning the spotlight on Italy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In light of the recent complaints and additional information provided by the complainants, <strong>the Commission services are currently assessing the conformity of the reformed national legislation with the EU law requirements<\/strong>,&#8221; Schmit said. A clarification with clear\u00a0practical implications. Should the relevant checks find that Italian law does not comply with EU law, the Commission could order\u00a0the government to undertake the appropriate remedies. Translated: sending the letter of formal notice and the automatic opening of infringement proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Schmit\u00a0said what the relevant Commission departments are looking at and will look at. Work is being done to &#8220;<strong>ascertain the worker status of lay tax judges\u00a0for the purposes of the\u00a0EU labour law\u00a0<em>acquis<\/em><\/strong>.&#8221; More specifically, the commissioner continues, the focus is on &#8220;compliance with the principle of non-discrimination of part-time workers\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0vis-<\/span>\u00e0-vis comparable full-time workers, considering the differences in treatment between lay tax judges and tax magistrates under the reformed national rules.&#8221; The government is on notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor Commissioner Schmit: &#8220;We are assessing the conformity of the reformed national legislation with EU law requirements.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":343578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25712],"tags":[25746,26180,27183,27186,26140,27184,25830,26407,27185,26444],"class_list":["post-343620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-aldo-patriciello-en","tag-procedure-infection-en","tag-justice-en","tag-labor-law-en","tag-governo-meloni-en","tag-nicolas-schmit-en","tag-judges-tributaries-en","tag-work-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343620"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344802,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343620\/revisions\/344802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}