d after the Second World War in order to help companies during the transition and then to help them cope with temporary crises, by reducing the costs of unused labor and thereby avoid redundancies. Over recent decades, various laws have amended and detailed its application. The State and companies, whose contribution rates vary according to the number of employees, finance the CIG jointly. Employers that make use of it also have to pay an additional contribution, except when the causes that have imposed its use are “objectively unavoidable”. Since 1968, it has taken the form of two measures: ordinary (CIGO), and extraordinary (CIGS).
The Cassa Integrazione Guadagni Ordinaria. The CIGO intervenes in the event of temporary crises beyond the company or its employees’ control (loss of orders, meteorological incidents), or during temporary market crises.