Case Law

With two “twin” rulings (No. 19863 and No.  20620, the latter filed on 7 August), the Court of Cassation had the opportunity to express its opinion on the rules governing collective dismissals linked to corporate demergers. In the case in question, a company had performed a partial demerger – by assigning to two newly incorporate ....

The “battle” on the type of employment relationship of the so-called riders in the age of the gig economy continues. A few months after the judgement issued by the Court of Turin ruling that the six riders of Foodora could not be deemed employees of the company, the Court of Milan ruled on 4 July ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgement dated 25 June 2018 No. 16702, issued a new ruling on the dismissal for justified objective reasons and related penalty consequences. In particular, the Court of Cassation noted that the negative trend of a company represents a factual requirement that the employer must necessarily prove and the judge accept. ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 19732 dated 25 July 2018, confirmed that in the case of dismissal for justified objective reasons, the selection of the employee, or employees, to be dismissed is not fully at the discretion of the employer. In fact, it is limited, in addition by the prohibition to discriminate, by ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 17248 dated 2 July 2018, faced the matter of the protection of employees when in the presence of a series of fixed-term contracts. In particular, according to the Court of Cassation, the indemnity ranging from 2.5 to 12 monthly salaries from the last global remuneration as part art. ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 17514 dated 4 July 2018, deemed justified the disciplinary dismissal ordered to a bus driver of a private rental company who, during a long period of absence from work for an ongoing injury, was found to be working for a car parking facility. On the same date, on ....

With its judgment No. 13266 of 28 May 2018, the Court of Cassation has declared the lawfulness of a disciplinary dismissal served on an employee for having used the company computer during working time for non-working purposes. In the case at issue, the employer had commenced a retrospective investigation – following the reporting of the ....

With its judgment No. 14527 of 6 June 2018, the Court of Cassation has quashed the decision of the Court of Appeal having territorial jurisdiction which, by reversing the decision of the first instance judge, had declared the unlawfulness of the dismissal for cause served on five employees who had staged the suicide and the ....