The Support Decree has introduced new dismissal ban periods:

• until 30 June 2021, for all employers without any distinction;

• from 1 July to 31 October 2021, for those employers who suspend or reduce work activity due to events attributable to the COVID-19 epidemiological emergency and who apply for and benefit from the salary integration tools provided for in paragraphs 2 and 8 of article 8 of the Support Decree.

For both the first period and the second period, the exceptions already identified previously remain unchanged, therefore the ban does not apply in the cases of:

• termination of the procurement contract with re-hiring by the new incoming contractor;

• definitive cessation of the company's activity, by placing the company in liquidation without continuation, even partial, of the activity, in cases where during the liquidation there is no transfer of a complex of assets or activities that could constitute a transfer of the company or a branch thereof;

• collective company agreement, stipulated by the comparatively most representative trade union organizations at a national level, encouraging the termination of the employment relationship, limited to workers who adhere to the aforementioned agreement (without prejudice to the possibility of accessing the NASPI);

• bankruptcy, when the temporary operation of the company is not foreseen or its termination is ordered.