Employer of record services in Italy

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Quickly & easily employ in Italy without an entity

Need to hire in Italy without setting up a local entity? An Employer of Record (EOR) lets you employ people legally, quickly, and without the cost or complexity of opening a subsidiary. We handle compliance, payroll, and HR admin — so you avoid misclassification risk, stay on the right side of Italy’s strict employment laws, and get your team onboarded and paid without delays.

Entity-free employment

Seamlessly employ in Italy and 179 other countries without needing to set up an entity.

Stay compliant

Using an EOR ensures compliance with changing tax, labor and payroll laws.

Dedicated support

Get instant answers all your employment questions, with access to a named account manager just a phone call away.

Sync with your HR systems

Effortlessly sync your employees data for attendance, leave, onboarding, and benefits systems via our dedicated API. Easily setup by our hands-on onboarding team.

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Employing in Italy made simple

Growing your workforce in Italy doesn’t need to be complex. Speak with our team to see how TopSource EOR makes it easy to hire in new countries, without setting up entities or getting lost in local regulations.

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Yes. We manage INPS and INAIL social security and insurance contributions, which together run to roughly 30% of gross salary for the employer, along with IRPEF income tax withholding. We also apply the correct CCNL (national collective bargaining agreement) for the employee’s sector, since these agreements set pay scales, notice periods, and the 13th (and in some sectors 14th) month payment that Italian employment law and practice require.

Beyond the mandatory 13th month salary (tredicesima) and TFR severance accrual, competitive Italian employers add meal vouchers (buoni pasto), supplementary health insurance (fondo sanitario, sometimes mandated by CCNL), and, where the sector CCNL allows, a 14th month payment. Since many benefits are actually set by the applicable CCNL rather than general law, identifying the correct agreement is the first step to a compliant, competitive offer.

Notice periods in Italy are set by the applicable CCNL rather than a single statutory rule, and typically scale with seniority and role category. TFR (trattamento di fine rapporto), a severance-style fund accruing at roughly 7.4% of salary annually, becomes payable at termination regardless of cause. Dismissal protections were eased by the 2015 Jobs Act reforms for contracts signed after that date, but getting the classification and process right still requires local expertise.

An EOR can typically onboard within one to two weeks once the correct CCNL is confirmed and INPS registration is complete, compared with the couple of months often needed to incorporate an Italian entity (such as an SRL) and register for tax and social security purposes. Correctly matching the CCNL from day one avoids costly corrections later.

Italy’s CCNL system means pay, benefits, and notice periods can differ meaningfully by sector, and getting the wrong agreement applied creates real compliance exposure. An EOR identifies the correct CCNL and manages TFR, INPS, and INAIL obligations, carrying the associated liability, which is typically the more practical path for an initial Italian hire.