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WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION IN ITALY BY HENRY BURNHAM BOONE ON the iyth of March, 1898, the follow days after the establishment of such in ing law was decreed by Umberto I, dustry. Returns must be made by the King of Italy, with the approval of the Senate heads of industries during the first ten days and House of Deputies for the protection, of each month to the Prefect of the Province of the life and health of workmen. giving the number of operatives during the 1 . The workmen contemplated by the act past month and their daily compensation, and the number of days' work performed by are the following: a. All those employed in mining or exca each individual. Companies in which insurance may be vations, in the construction of buildings, in enterprises for the production of gas or elec affected : 1. The National Insurance Company of tricity, in telephone companies, in indus tries where explosive material is manufac Italy. This is a government institution tured or treated, in arsenals and shipyards. founded many years ago to insure workmen b. Workmen employed in the construc employed in the service of the State on rail tion or working of railroads, or in the ser ways, roads, and public buildings, etc. vice of transportation by rivers, lakes, and 2. Certain other specified companies un canals, in tramways or any variety of der control and inspection of the national mechanical traction, those employed on the government. construction or repair of ports, canals, em Indemnity paid to injured workmen : a. Injuries capable of a cure in five days bankments, bridges, tunnels, or streets — provided that the number of workmen in or less have no indemnity. •one of the above named enterprises is b. In case of permanent absolute injury the indemnity is equal to five years' salary superior to five. c. Workmen employed in labor in which and not less than three thousand lire. c. In case of injury, permanent but par machinery is used whatever be its motive power, provided that there are more than tial, indemnity is made equal to five times five workmen, and the workman does not the amount of probable annual loss of himself give the motion to the machine he salary. d. In case of temporary but absolute uses. 2. A workman is one who performs labor injury the indemnity is half the daily wage for another outside his proper house for lost and begins to accrue after the fifth wages, he who superintends the labor of day of injury. others provided that his wages do not ex e. In case of temporary partial injury ceed seven lire a day and the apprentice, the indemnity is half the daily loss of wages paid or unpaid. caused by the reduction on account of in All workmen under the above definition jury, and accrues after the fifth day. and performing labor of the sorts contem /. In case of death the indemnity is five plated by this act must be insured against years' salary and is paid to the heirs or legal injury to life, limb, and health, by their representatives of the dead, following the proper employer and at his expense. No laws of descent of the Legge Civile. This agreement between employer and employed sum must be paid in three months after to avoid the insurance or lessen the indem death or injury. nity decreed by the State is valid. The head of the industry must sustain the Such insurance must be effected by the expense of medical care given the injured head of an industry or his agent within ten at the time of injury.