With reference to recent articles published by the press regarding the alleged elimination from the Uniemens flow of the profession code referred to in the INPS message n. 208 of the 17.1.2019, it should be noted that the error message was removed only temporarily and, therefore, the field provided for the indication of the profession code has not been eliminated from the Uniemens stream.
Complaints sent during the transitional adaptation period, without the aforementioned information, will be regularly processed, similarly to what will happen for the complaints containing the professional qualification.
The temporary removal of the control has been arranged to allow employers to complete recognition of the profession codes of their employees, to be displayed in the flow transmission procedure when this element is required as mandatory.
With reference to the alleged criticality linked to the request for data relating to the worker's illness, with the 803 message of the 2019, the Institute intended to strengthen the control facilities in relation to the economic sickness benefits advanced by the employer and then adjusted by this charged to the Institute.
On the merits, the additional information requested exclusively concerns the employee's remuneration regime in the event of absence due to illness. To this end, the company is required to indicate whether, in the event of illness, the employee is in any case paid the remuneration, a circumstance which, as is known, precludes the use of the economic sickness allowance paid by the Institute, from the moment that there is no reduction in the worker's income. This occurs when the employment relationship is regulated by provisions that provide, in the event of absence due to illness, the payment of the remuneration paid by the company.
In this regard, although the Institute has the information regarding the CCNL applied by the company, it could not determine in a certain way the possible payment of remuneration during the absence due to illness, since the obligation can be provided for by second-level territorial or company contracts as well as by the individual contract, deeds which, as is known, become known to the Institute only in the event of administrative or inspection assessments.