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3.3 SPECIAL REGIMES
- Occasional working
- Show workers
- Professional nurses
- Self employed and free practitioner
- Social co-operative
3.3.1 OCCASIONAL WORKING
The foreigner who looses a job, even for a voluntary resignation, can obtain from private or public services for employment a magnetic card which allows to be engaged in occasional jobs (house services, assistance for people, little handkeeping ecc.). This is possible until the end of the natural expiration of his/her residence permit, but however for not more than 6 months. These jobs must be paid with special tickets (value € 5.70 each) and the foreigner can change them in money in authorized agencies. Occasional working doesn't allow to the renewal of the residence permit.
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3.3.2 SHOW WORKERS
Engagement is subject to issue of special authorisation from Special Placement Office of Show Workers (with site in Roma and 3 decentrated offices in Milan, Naples and Palermo), with opinion of Minister for Tourism and Show and the issue of a temporary nulla osta of the provincial authority of Police.
From a contributive point of view, the position of show workers is the same as that of workers in other sectors (registration with ENPALS for pension fund contributions; registration with INPS for Gescal contributes).
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3.3.3 PROFESSIONAL NURSES
Graduated nurses from all foreign countries may work in Italian hospitals and private clinics, upon validation of foreign diplom.
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3.3.4 SELF EMPLOYED AND FREE PRACTITIONER
Foreign citizens may carry out, in the Italian territory, non occasional activity of self employment (industrial, professional, artisan or commercial) unless it be an activity reserved by law to Italian citizens or citizens of the European Union.
In order to carry out the following activities, a foreigner must:
- dispose of adequate resources in order to exercise desired activity;
- has the requisites provided by the Italian law for the exercise of that activity;
- has a certificate from which results that there are no motives that may block the issue of required license;
- has an adequate accommodation;
- has a yearly income, of allowed provenience, which is sufficient for the participation in health expenses.
If all these requisites are present, foreigner may obtain entry visa in order to carry out self employment (with the precise indication of activity). This visa must be issued within 120 days from presentation of request with relative documentation.
ITINERANT WORKERS
Licenses for itinerants are issued by the Comune in which activity is to be carried out, but always compatibly with program orientations of the giunta comunale on itinerant commerce.
FREE PROFESSIONISTS
Solicitors, doctors, architects etc., in order to carry out their activity must enrol in the relative professional list.
Foreigner with regular residence permit and with university degree or diploma obtained in Italy or who has obtained recognition of study titles (see Chap. VI) can participate to abilitation exams and obtain registration with professional lists in his/her branch of activity.
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3.3.5 SOCIAL CO-OPERATIVE
A social co-operative is a firm that reunites different people, who put in common their professional competencies in order to carry out an activity of social nature. Social co-operatives supply services or goods to realise social integration of all citizens. They are also called solidarity co-operatives and have been instituted with the law 381 of 1991.
TYPE A CO-OPERATIVES
They supply socio-health and schooling services (home nursing assistance; home assistance to elderly, handicapped or minor people; management of nursery schools; management of communities for drug disintoxication or reception of minors with penal precedents; centres that carry out cultural activities, such as language courses and world education, seminars and meetings, exhibitions and theatre; etc.).
TYPE B CO-OPERATIVES
They carry out different activities (agriculture, industrial, commercial, services) in order to insert disadvantaged people: physical, psycho and sensorial invalids, ex inmates of psychiatric hospitals, patients under psychiatric treatment, drug-addicts, alcoholics, minor children in working age with family difficulties, convicts admitted to alternative detention measures.
For foreigners the choice of working for a social co-operative or the founding, with others, of a co-operative, may be a way of carrying out an activity and finding a regular employment.
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