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The Court of Cassation with judgement no. 5523 filed on 8 March 2018, has dealt inter alia with the issue of the validity of a dismissal for just cause imposed on the basis of the contents of a few emails sent from the email address of a worker recipient of the dismissal and therefore of ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgement of 1 March 2018 no. 4883, declared that a dismissal for just cause imposed on a worker because he had faked ill health is retaliatory. This is so because the disease of which the employee suffered turned out to be real on the basis of objective data and logical ....

The Data Processor pursuant to Article 28 of the Personal Data Protection Code (the EU “GDPR”) is an external party that processes personal data on behalf of the Data Controller. The Data Processor must be appointed by way of a contract/legal deed that binds it to the Controller. The Data Processor is expressly obliged to ....

In order to fight abuses against employees and money laundering – an offense detailed in article 25 octies of Legislative Decree No. 231/01 – article 1, paragraph 911 of the Law 205/17 imposes a prohibition on employers and private clients, effective from 1/07/18, to pay remunerations and wages by cash directly to the employee, regardless ....

With judgment no. 6047 of 13 March 2018 the Court of Cassation has dealt again with the issue of dismissals imposed during sick leaves, stressing that it is important for a worker to do all that he/she possibly can to put all of his/her efforts at the service of the employer in observance of the ....

The European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), that will have effect from next May 25, introduced the Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) who shall have the task to monitor the compliance with the European regulation and with data protection provisions as well as with the policies of the controller or processor in relation to the protection ....

Article 4 of the Workers’ Statute   – Article 4 of the Workers’ Statute before the Jobs Act After more than forty years, the regulations established by article 4 of Law No. 300 dated 20 May 1970 of the Workers’ Statute on the topic of remote controls have been amended by article 23 of Law ....

On November 8 2017, the Chamber of Deputies cast its final vote approving European Law 2017, comprising 30 articles among which there is the introduction, as part of Law Decree 231/01, of article 25-duodecies. In particular, the regulation introduces among the offences detailed in the Law Decree 231 those of Racism and Xenophobia, as per ....