Italy: first day at work, documents and payslip

The RAL (gross annual salary) is a year’s gross: less arrives in the payslip.

It is the official archive of national agreements; every agreement has a code that the employer must give you.

If it is fixed-term, look at the end date.

Six months at most. In fixed-term contracts, 1 day for every 15 calendar days: from 2 to 15 days up to 6 months of contract, up to 30 between 6 and 12 months.

You can work from 16, after at least 10 years of school, and only after a medical visit that finds you fit.

The tax code identifies you with public bodies and administrations.

Salary must be paid by traceable means, such as bank transfer: never cash in hand.

Without a valid permit the employer cannot hire you.

Without it, the employer does not apply them. It also holds for later years: report every change.

It must be given before you start working; the information that is missing must arrive in writing within 7 days.

Leave, notice, training and the collective agreement can also arrive within a month.

The mandatory notice must be made by the day before work starts.

It is mandatory, is done during working hours and costs you nothing.

It checks that you are fit for that job.

At a first job it must explain your agreement’s fund, the automatic enrollment, the possible choices and the timing.

From July 1, 2026, if you do not choose, you are enrolled automatically in the pension fund provided by your collective agreement.

To leave it with the company or change fund, opt out in writing within the 60 days; you can still join later.

All the TFR and the contributions provided by the agreements go to the fund; if you earn less than the social allowance, your share is not mandatory.

If you do not say, automatic enrollment in the new agreement’s fund applies.

The employer hands it over with the salary. Your signature on the slip does not prove you were paid.

They go to your pension. Some sectors have different shares.

This year’s are calculated at year-end and withheld the next year, in installments.

Leave is at least 4 weeks a year and cannot be paid out instead of taken, except at the end of the employment.

You view it online on the INPS website, or through the contact center or a patronato.

The employer gives it to you by March 16: it summarizes the year’s income, taxes and contributions.

In 2026 it was filed by September 30: check the date for the year you do it.

You can make an inspection request to the territorial Inspectorate, with the contract and payslips.