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The House Assembly, on 15 November 2017, approved a bill that includes rules for the protection of employees or contractors who disclose illegal actions of which they become aware during the work relationship (the so-called whistleblowing). In the specific case, the whistleblowing employee cannot be punished, dismissed, demoted or subjected to any other retaliatory or ....

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. 23697, filed on 10 October 2017, confirmed the consolidated case law trend according to which a top manager, who, even if having the power of self-assigning the vacation period, does not exercise such power, is entitled only to a substitutive allowance for vacation days for the current year, ....

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 ....