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Effective from 15 November 2017 employers that signed individual smart working agreements must comply with the mandatory notifications. In fact, art. 23 of the Law 81/2017 expressly establishes that the agreement on smart work be subjected to the “notifications detailed in article 9-bis of the Law Decree No. 510 dated 1 October 1996, converted, with ....

The Jobs Act, with the measures it is composed of, including the one related to increased protection based on seniority of 2015 has further reduced the application field of real job protection and has included a compensation system which, at least in the intentions of the law, is certain and not discretionary”, confirmed Vittorio De ....

“The Jobs Act, and the different provisions that it comprises, including those relating to the progressive entitlements introduced in 2015, has reduced further the scope of application of the actual job guarantee and has set out a compensatory system that, at least in the intention of the law-maker, is certain and not discretionary” said Lawyer ....

Il 25 maggio 2018 diventerà pienamente operativo il Regolamento europeo 2016/679 in materia...

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 25147/2017, stated that dismissal of an employee who copies confidential corporate data on a personal pen drive, without the employer authorisation, is legitimate, even if this information is not disclosed to third parties.  This is because the violation of contractual duties also occurs when a particular conduct, even ....

Dismissal due to personnel reduction or dismissal for justified objective reasons exercised against a compulsorily employed worker, pursuant to Art. 10, paragraph 4, of Law No. 68/1999, can be voided if, at termination of the employment relationship, the mandatory quota pertaining to the remaining employed workforce is not met.

During the meeting held on 18 October 2017, the Senate approved with amendments, draft law No. 2208/2016, containing provisions for the protection of whistleblowers reporting offences or irregularities of which they became aware within a public or private employment relationship (the so-called whistleblowing). Concerning the private sector, the draft law establishes amendments to Legislative Decree ....

The renewal of the National Collective Bargaining Agreement (CCNL) for small and medium sized metalworker and plant installation businesses signed on 4 July by the Unionmeccanica Confapi and the Fiom-Cgil, Fim-Cisl and Uilm-Uil trade unions has been ratified. The contract, whose official signature occurred on 21 October, was signed following the employees’ consultations occurred on ....