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AI plays an increasingly important role in the recruitment phase, offering new opportunities in recruitment processes. In particular, the use of AI is already rapidly gaining momentum in algorithmic hiring, the personnel selection procedure wholly or partially entrusted to algorithms that is considered faster, more reliable and cheaper”. Commenting on AI used in recruitment, Vittorio De ....

Incentive takes hold in the United States, while still rare in Italy. Quacquarelli (Bicocca): “Certain topics remain taboo here” MILAN – Employment is growing, unemployment benefit claimants are falling, and wages are above inflation. The US employment market is experiencing a golden age and this pushes companies to look for new ways to recruit staff. After ....

After a long wait and several postponements, on 25 March 2023 Italian Legislative Decree no. 24 of 10 March 2023 (the “Decree”) was published in the Italian Official Gazette no. 63 of 15 March 2023. With the Decree the Italian legislator implemented Directive (EU) 2019/1937 “on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law and ....

After a silent and rapid incubation, computer systems that can perform tasks that would normally require human intelligence (also known as Artificial Intelligence), have become reality and represent one of the hottest challenges (if not the greatest and more complex) which enterprises are now held to face and in most cases, not to put at stake ....

On 10 July 2023, the European Commission adopted an adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework ensuring that the United States of America guarantees an adequate level of protection of personal data comparable to that of the European Union. The adequacy decision is one of the tools provided for by Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the ....

In its recent order No. 19023 of 5 July 2023, the Italian Court of Cassation has ruled on geographical jurisdiction under Article 413 of the Italian Code of Civil Procedure. The Court ruled that the worker’s home, from which he performed his work through remote working, could not be classified as a company dependence in ....

The Court of Appeal of Trento decided with judgment No. 8 of 6 July 2023 that an employer cannot dismiss a worker suffering from an illness that leads to a disability immediately after exceeding the protected period, but must make reasonable arrangements for the preservation of the job, in compliance with the principles of good ....

By judgment No. 450 of 13 June 2023, the Court of Appeal of Messina established that if an employer has not trained employees on the specific risks related to the tasks for which they are employed, sick days attributable to harmful working conditions do not count towards the protected period. This applies even if the ....