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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.
“Industrial Relations Law across the World” came to be thanks to the work carried out by a dozen of professional experts from various countries, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the firm. The volume, published by Wolters Kluwer and coordinated by De Luca & Partners, analyses the current frameworks and trends that are ....
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 Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 23408 filed on 06 October 2017, stated that there is no obligation for the employer when initiating disciplinary proceedings against one of its employee responsible for a breach to make available to him/her the corporate documentation on which the dispute is based. This is because, as part of ....
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 ....
The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 23846 filed on 11 October 2017, intervened on the qualification of a self-employment relationship as employment. In the specific case, the Court of Cassation stated that subjugation to managerial and disciplinary power cannot be an exclusive criterion to determine whether employment is or is not occurring. This is ....
The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 22295/2017, ruled that notification of dismissal of a worker sent by registered letter to the employee’s old address of residence is valid if he/she failed to communicate the change of residence within the terms referred in the National Collective Bargaining Agreement (CCNL). In this specific case, the employer, ....
