Italy: as part of the Youth Guarantee program the government has launched a ‘Super Bonus’ payment for when internships are converted into permanent employment contracts

Companies with youths having worked in or still working in Youth Guarantee program internships, and go on to hire them on permanent employment contracts, can qualify for a ‘Super Bonus’ payment, the amount of which varies between €3,000 and €12,000.
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The ‘Super Bonus’, which is to encourage converting internships into permanent employment contracts (including temporary work) forms ‘phase 2’ of Italy’s Youth Guarantee that aims for a ‘constant improvement in the program that increases the number the opportunities for youths.” At the end of February more than 979,000 have signed on to the Youth Guarantee program. 624, 553 were taken on by the employment agencies and services and 288,719 either received an internship opportunity or some other

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