Domestic work contract for household staff (Italy)
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For a household in Italy hiring a domestic helper, carer or nanny on an open-ended contract. It follows the Italian national collective agreement for domestic work (CCNL lavoro domestico) renewed on 28 October 2025: grade, duties, live-in or not, hours, pay, board and lodging, trial, holidays, notice and severance pay (TFR), with the CCNL figures the employer fills in. The hiring must be reported free of charge to INPS by the day before work starts. Domestic workers do not use the online resignation procedure. In Italian.
- Made for use in Italy
- Last updated October 14, 2026
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When to use this document
- You are hiring a live-in carer for an elderly parent in Italy and want a written contract with them.
- The cleaner who comes to your home in Italy has been working without a contract and you want to take them on properly.
- Your new nanny will live with the family and you need to agree board, lodging and days off.
- You want an Italian domestic work contract under the collective agreement for household staff.
What you fill in
The details the document asks for.
- Employer
- Employer's codice fiscale or partita IVA (Italian tax or VAT number)
- Employer's home address (street, number, postcode and town)
- Employee
- Employee's codice fiscale (Italian tax code)
- Employee's place and date of birth
- Employee's address
- Worker's residence permit (number and expiry), if not an EU citizen
- Start date
- Place of work
- Grade under the collective agreement
- Whether the worker lives in
- Duties
- Weekly working hours
- Working hours
- Gross base salary
- Salary in words
- Pay per month or per hour
- Board and lodging
- Day of payment
- Trial period (e.g. three months of actual work, or “none”)
- Additional terms
- City
- Date
Common questions
- Does a contract for household staff in Italy have to be in writing?
- The Italian collective agreement for domestic work expects the terms of the job to be put in writing in a letter of engagement, a copy of which stays with the worker: grade, duties, hours, pay, live-in or not, board and lodging. This contract contains them and refers to the agreement for everything else. The associations that sign the agreement (such as Assindatcolf, Domina and Fidaldo for families) publish the minimum pay tables free of charge.
- How is the hiring of household staff reported to INPS in Italy?
- With the hiring notice to INPS, by midnight on the day before work starts: online on the INPS website with SPID, CIE or CNS, through the INPS contact centre, or through a patronato (union-run help office) or a trade association. The INPS service is free. The same notice reaches the other bodies; contributions are then paid with the INPS payment notices by the set deadlines.
- What notice period applies to household staff in Italy?
- The one set by the Italian collective agreement for domestic work, which grows with length of service with the same employer and varies with weekly hours and with living in; the days are calendar days. When the worker resigns, the periods are halved. A party who does not give notice owes the other an indemnity equal to the pay for the missing period (art. 2118 of the Italian Civil Code). Ending the job without notice is allowed only for just cause.
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