Part II: Insurance and Thrift 



ITALY. 



COMPUIvSORY INSURANCE AGAINST 

 THE ACCIDENTS OF AORICUIvTURAIy lyABOUR. 



OFFICIAIv SOURCES: 



Bill introduced by the Minister of industry, Cobimerce and I^abour at the sitting 

 OF 26 March 191 71 : Compulsory Insurance against the Accidents of agricul- 

 tural lyABOUR. Senate of the Kingdom. Doc. No. 360. 



Report of the central office of the Senate on this bill. Dec. No. 360. A I^ieutenancy 

 DECREE-IyAW, 23 August 1917, No. 1450, as to Provision for Compulsorj^ Insurance against 

 the Accidents of Agricultural I^abour. Gazzetta Ufficiale del Regno d'ltalia. Rome, No. 218, 

 14 September 191 7. 



ly'ASSICURAZIONE OBBLIGATORIA CONTRO GLI INFORTUNI SUL LAVORO AGRICOLO {CompulSOry 



Insurance against the Accidents of Agricultural Labour). Annali del Credito e deUa Previ- 

 denza [Annals of Credit and Thrift), Series II, Vol. 18, Ministero per I'ludustria, il Com- 

 mercio e il I^avoro [Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Labour), Direzione Generale del 

 Credito e della Previdenza [General Direction of Credit and Thrift). Rome, 1916. 



I^ast July the Senate examined and approved the bill (No. 360) in- 

 troduced by Signor de Nava, Ministry of Industry, Commerce and lyabour, 

 at the sitting of 26 March 1917, for compulsory insurance against the acci- 

 dents of agricultural labour ; and the government, in response to numerous 

 desires expressed on all sides, has interpreted the f eeHng of the country and 

 promoted the immediated pablication, by means of a decree-law, of the pro- 

 visions voted by the Senate. 



The important reform, thus sanctioned by the lieutenancy decree of 

 23 August 1 91 7, 1450, fills one of the chief gaps in Italian social legisla- 

 tion, placing agricultural labourers, where the provision for insurance against 

 accidents attendant on employment is concerned, on the same footing as 

 industrial workers who are cared for by the law (single text) of 31 January 

 1904, No. 51. 



The idea informing the present measure is that of guaranteeing indem- 

 nification to victims of accidents as surely as possibly and at the least pos- 

 sible cost to landowners. Pending the enactment of rules for its execution, 

 for the compilation of which arrangements have been iriade and which we 

 will notice in due time, we will give the chief provisions of the decree. 



