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Formal demand to the employer for unpaid wages and overtime (Italy)

Notice & Demand
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Italy
Employment
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For a worker in Italy, still employed or not, who has not received wages, the thirteenth-month pay, overtime or other items. The letter lists the gross sums owed month by month, puts the employer formally in default with a deadline to pay, claims interest and revaluation, and interrupts the five-year limitation period. It announces the next step: the free request for intervention to the territorial labour inspectorate, for conciliation or a compliance order (diffida accertativa). Sent by registered post or PEC. In Italian.

  • Made for use in Italy
  • Last updated October 14, 2026

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  • Your employer in Italy has not paid you for months and keeps promising the money is coming.
  • You work overtime every week but those hours never appear on your payslip.
  • You have left a company in Italy and are still owed your last wages and the thirteenth-month pay.
  • You want to demand your unpaid wages in writing before going to the labour inspectorate.

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The details the document asks for.

  • Employee
  • Employee's address
  • Employee's codice fiscale (Italian tax code)
  • How the letter is sent (printed above the recipient)
  • Employer
  • Employer's postal address (street and number, postcode and town on separate lines)
  • City
  • Date
  • Date of hiring
  • Position
  • Claims by month (month, type of pay, gross amount)
  • Unpaid overtime (dates and hours)
  • Amount claimed
  • Payment deadline

Common questions

In Italy, how long before unpaid wages become time-barred?
Five years (art. 2948(4) of the Italian Civil Code). For private-sector employees the period runs from the end of the employment, not from each pay date (Court of Cassation no. 26246/2022, followed by the national labour inspectorate); public employment has different rules. A written demand for payment, like this one, interrupts limitation, which then starts running afresh (art. 2943 of the Civil Code).
What does the labour inspectorate do about unpaid wages in Italy?
The worker can file a free request for intervention with the territorial labour inspectorate. The inspectorate may call the parties to a conciliation (art. 11 of Italian Legislative Decree 124/2004) or, once the claim is established, issue a compliance order (diffida accertativa) telling the employer to pay, which becomes enforceable if not challenged (art. 12). Patronati and unions help prepare the request free of charge.
In Italy, can you leave a job if wages are not paid?
Non-payment of wages can be just cause for resignation: the worker may resign without notice (art. 2119 of the Italian Civil Code) and in that case claim NASpI. The resignation is still made through the online procedure, stating the just cause, except in domestic work and public employment. It is wise first to put the employer in default in writing, as this demand does.

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