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The Court of appeal of Milan, with judgement No. 890 dated 6 April 2017, ruled once again on the maximum number of sickness absence days whenever it is expressed in months and the CCNL (Collective bargaining agreement) of the sector in question does not specifically govern the calculation procedure. In the specific case, a worker ....

Unless otherwise established in the collective bargaining agreements, no more than 20% of employees out of the total number of open term employees can be hired under a fixed-term agreement effective from 1 June of the hiring year. Exceeding this quota leads to an administrative fine of: (i) 20% of the salary paid, for each ....

With the final approval of the so called Self-employment Jobs Act – currently pending publication in the Official Gazette – a reform of the Italian laws has been introduced with the goal of providing financial-social protection to self-employed individuals that do not carry out their activity through a business. From a financial protection standpoint, the ....

With the main goal of balancing private life and work, DDL 2233-B has been approved in its final version, which, in fact, governs the so-called remote work, that is the type of work performed outside of the employer’s premises and without specific requirements in terms of working hours. The intrinsic characteristics of remote work clearly ....

Effective 1 April 2017, the new method for the calculation of the merit-based indemnity for sales agents established by article 11 of the Collective bargaining agreement for the industrial sector (Aec Industria) signed by the social partners on 30 July 2014. The new rules, which follow closely the method adopted by the German Commercial Code, ....

The Personal Data Protection Authority has prepared and published the first operating guide on the application of European Regulation No. 2016/679, which is now available on its official website. The operating guide includes 6 sections: (i) Legal grounds for processing; (ii) Information notice; (iii) Rights of the Interested Parties; (iv) Data Controller, Data Processor and ....

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The Lombardy Territorial Court, with judgement No. 33/33/17, confirmed that the indemnity paid to a manager consequently to unfair dismissal challenged judicially and settled (the Industry Executives National Collective Bargaining Agreement applied to this specific case) is not compensatory in nature and is thus subject to taxation. As a matter of fact, this indemnity may ....