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De Luca & Partners’ Think Tank manages and coordinates research, training (internal and external) and editorial activities on labour law matters, protection of personal data and administrative liability of entities.

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27 March 2017 • Insights

Disciplinary dismissal: double checking by the judge

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 7166 dated 21 March 2017 has once again deliberated on the subject matter of disciplinary dismissal. In this specific case, the employee, holding the position of emergency technical manager was dismissed after a disciplinary proceeding for having refused to respond to two subsequent support calls respectively for a ....

27 March 2017 • Insights

Do you know that the employer is entitled to modify the duties, the legal category and the contractual enrollment as well as the salary of the employee?

Pursuant to article 2103 of the Italian Civil Code as recently reformed, the employer can enter into an individual settlement agreement with the employee – to be signed in front of public authorities – providing for the change of the duties, the legal category of employment and the contractual enrollment as well as the relevant ....

27 March 2017 • Insights

Italian Draft Law No. 25/2017: Goodbye to vouchers and news on tenders

Italian Law decree No. 25 dated 17 March 2017, published on the Official Gazette, has revoked the regulations on ancillary work, voiding completely the instrument already weakened by the latest legislative interventions applied by the amendments to the Jobs Act. Now new legislative policy instruments will have to be designed to fight unreported employment and ....

27 March 2017 • Insights

Approved at the Chamber the draft law on self-employment and the “remote working”

The Chamber, in the session dated 9 March 2017, has approved the Italian Draft Law detailing measures for the protection of non-entrepreneurial self-employment and measures aimed at favouring the flexibility in terms of time and place for employed work (the so called remote working). The provision now is sent back to the Senate for final approval. ....

20 March 2017 • News

“Externalisations, tenders and corporate transfers” – Convenia, Milan (9-10 May 2017), Rome (16-17 May 2017)

Alberto De Luca will participate to the convention “Externalisations, tenders and corporate transfers” to discuss in more details the labour-law issues of tenders in the private sector. The convention, organized by Convenia, will be held in Milan on 9 and 10 May 2017 and in Rome on 16 and 17 May 2017.  

13 March 2017 • Insights, News

Dismissals, bull’s eye “Legal actions are drastically reduced; now the justice system is less burdened” (Affari&Finanza, 13 March 2017 – Vittorio De Luca)

Vittorio De Luca talks about the main effects of the Jobs Act that through the new changes introduced in the matter of flexibility at end of employment, which reduce the possibilities of reintegration and introduce financial compensation, has indeed revolutionised the job market in Italy. According to the statistics of the Ministry “of Justice, lawsuits ....

28 February 2017 • Insights

The procedures for application of the non-recurring one-time payment established by the Renewal of the National Labour Collective Agreement for the private metalworking sector and the mechanical engineering and plant installation sector have been specified

On 19 January 2017, following the successful outcome of the certified workers’ consultation, the Renewal of the National Labour Collective Agreement for the private metalworking sector and mechanical engineering and plant installation sector was officially signed and therefore now fully effective. On that occasion, the Parties also defined the contractual text concerning the gross non-recurrent ....