Studio Bellocchio is a professional Studio which, since 1994, has been practicing in the field of labour law, advising and assisting its national and multinational clients – operating in most industries belonging to several industries including commercial, Electrical, IT and Chemical.
Qualified professionals grants to the clients advising and assistance either in the ordinary management either in the extra-ordinary transactions as mergers and acquisitions and start up.
In such type of operations Studio Bellocchio assists its clients, defining strategies, scheduling operations, , negotiating with Trade Unions and Works Councils, liaising with the relevant authorities where appropriate, drafting collective or individual agreements, also dealing with tax and social security issues.
Our solid legal preparation allow us to offers consultancy and direct assistance to permit companies to maximize opportunities within the requirements of the law.
Our professional skills cover Labor Law, Social Security Law, Organization and Human Resource Management, Union Relations, Training and Professional Upgrading, Personnel Administration and Payroll Processing.
Our professionalism allows us to manage company work issues in a context where legal and contractual matters are continually updated, while administrative and legal procedures are combined to give clients customized solutions
The clients of Studio Bellocchio are either Italian either foreign corporations.
Due to its international orientation, the Studio Bellocchio advises a significant number of multinational corporations (which represents about 70% of its clients) from , Great Britain, France, Germany and other European countries.
Detailed information about branches of industry in which the Studio Bellocchio’s clients operate can be provided in a personal meeting.
Services
Our consultancy is divided by specialties in all areas of labor and social security law.
Specifically singling out the right contract typology to use for the work relationship, The Studio grants to assistance to manage the company/employee contractual relationship, including editing documentation for:
- individual labor contracts and pre-contractual negotiations
- giving raises, incentive pay, etc.
- transfers, traveling expenses and assignments
- changes in duties or position
- new contractual agreements
- work scheduling, holidays, leaves, etc
- work suspension issues concerning the right to keep one’s job (sickness, maternity leave, military service, civic service, etc.)
- liquidation advances and employee loans
- managing procedures of salary garnishments and tutorship of the company
- disciplinary procedures
- ending the work relationship
- non-competition agreements
- opinions on company cases in point, on the interpretation and application of laws and National Labor Agreements
- assignments and inter-group international labor mobility (expatriates, assignment contracts, application of conventions against double taxation, international social security conventions)
- service sectoring, company spin-off activity, outsourcing, stipulating bid contracts and connected legal matters
- self-employment relationships
- duties given to professionals
- collaboration contracts and occasional contracts
- non-standard contracts
- relationships with agents and finance promoters
- contract editing, Company agreements and communications between parties
- drafting duties related to agents and Enasarco (the Social Security Agency for agents)
- opinions on legal and social security matters and on the interpretation and application of laws and the collective bargaining per sector
- ending the work relationship
- work termination indemnity calculations and remuneration criteria work and social security disputes
- contentious negotiations and legal transactions related to Articles 1965 e 2113 c.c., and at union headquarters or in care of the Province Commission to Reconcile Individual Disputes according to Articles.410 and 411 c.p.c.
- assistance and intervention in a pre-dispute phase or in disputes with employees or the self-employed, including direct relationships with counterpart lawyers and union representatives
- assistance in the event of work inspection and social security visits
- administrative social security/insurance disputes
- drafting and administrative recourse negotiations in the event of disputes in the Social Security and assistance entities, the Province Headquarters and the Regional Work headquarters.
The Assistance to the Management of Human Resources of client companies includes problem-solving support in these areas:
- help in the organization and development of Human Resources
- compensation policy
- assigning fringe benefits
- drafts of company rules and procedures
- opinions on the insertion of personnel, tax relief and tax benefits, etc.
- opinions on personnel re-organization, mobility procedures &/or individual or group firing
- institutions &/or membership in integrated pension and assistance funds
The payroll services’s assistance includes:
- relationships with the Social Security Institutes (INPS – INAIL – INPDAI – ENASARCO); with the Ministry of Work, with regional and local offices (Employment Centers – Province and Regional Work Headquarters, Inspection Services and Work Policy, etc.) and with other institutes and offices for specific company needs (ex. pension funds, assistance funds, etc.)
- opening and closing contribution and insurance positions
- checking the social security and insurance framework
- yearly revision of the INAIL tax
- arranging eventual debtor &/or creditor accounts
- preparation, negotiation and definition of training and work projects, conventions for company stages, apprentice authorization
- information and assistance with the administrative procedures to hire or transfer employees, including within the context of Laws 68/99 and 223/91
- negotiation and definition with the Ministry of Work and Territorial Offices to authorize work for non E.U. citizens in Italy and assignment abroad of Italian workers.
- analysis and direct editing of obligatory documentation (for ex. prospect L. 68/99 on the disabled; declarations of accidents at work).
Thanks to our deep experience in all main industry sectors, we provide sound practical and legal advice on a full spectrum of issues, bargaining practices, unions and social security matters (also including different types of pension funds)
Our company
Riccardo Bellocchio concentrates his practice in labour law and pension. In his career he has dealt with the most varied matters relating the human resource, gaining experience both in contracting and in individuals fund pension.
Professional Admissions / Qualifications: Labour consultant since 1998.
Professional Affiliations: appointed in the Council of the Milan labour consultant as Executive Researcher (Centro Studi Ricerche).
Publications:
Articles and essays regarding labour and trade union law, mostly published in “Persone ed Imprese” , Riccardo is co-authored the following books
AAVV I differenziali retributivi nel settore artigiano in Lombardia, Atlante Lombardo dell’impresa artigiana, Certet , Centro di economia regionale dei Trasporti e del Turismo, Università Bocconi di Milano, ricerca condotta per Regione Lombardia – Unioncamere regionale, Luglio 1997
Il lavoro Flessibile, Rubrica Parole Chiave, in Impresa e Stato, Rivista della camera di Commercio di Milano, n. 46 Luglio Agosto 1998,
La struttura del costo del lavoro in Italia, in a cura di Paola Olivelli Mario Mezzanzanica, A Qualunque costo Lavoro e pensioni tra incertezza e sicurezza, Guerini e associati Publishing Company , Milano 2005
Legal Education: Università degli Studi di Milano specialisation in labour relationship .
