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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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28 September 2016 • Insights

The Privacy Authority’s ban on indiscriminate monitoring over the use of the Internet and e-mail by employees

The Privacy Authority, with provision No. 303 dated 13 July 2016 disseminated with the Newsletter No. 419 dated 15 September declared unlawful the processing of data carried out by a university using special software. Specifically, the Privacy Authority noted that the software in question was such as to allow a systematic monitoring of the activity ....

2 September 2016 • News

“Commercial agency agreements law and practice” – Assolombarda Confindustria Milano Monza e Brianza, Milan (11 October 2016)

Vittorio De Luca and Stefania Raviele attended as speakers at the conference organized by Assolombarda on 11 October 2016 to discuss the regulatory and contractual aspects of Agency relationships, with particular reference to the management of relationships by the principals. Click here for all details. Il rapporto di agenzia

1 September 2016 • News

Labour & Employment – Annual Review 2016 (Financier Worldwide, agosto 2016 )

Financier Worldwide canvasses the opinions of leading professionals around the world on the latest trend sin labour & employment. ITALY VITTORIO DE LUCADE LUCA & PARTNERS   Q: WHAT NOTABLE DEVELOPMENTS IN EMPLOYMENT LAW HAVE YOU SEEN IN ITALY OVER THE LAST 12 MONTHS OR SO? HAVE THERE BEEN ANY,SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO EMPLOYEE RIGHTS OR ....

1 September 2016 • Insights

Court of Cassation: trial period and its validity

With sentence no. 16214 dated 3 August 2016, the Court of Cassation affirmed that a trial period must be accepted in writing by the employee. In this particular case, a female employee asked the Courts to quash the termination of her employment because the trial period specified in the employment contract had expired. The employer ....

1 September 2016 • Insights

Court of Cassation: no obligation to relocate executives

With sentence no. 14193 dated 12 July 2016, the Court di Cassation confirmed that executives dismissed for economic reasons need not be relocated within a Group. In the case examined an executive applied to the Courts, claiming that his dismissal from the Italian branch of an American multinational was unlawful despite the justification for economic ....

1 September 2016 • Insights

Court of Cassation: information due to the employer during an employee’s absence for sickness

With sentence no. 15226 dated 22 July 2016, the Court of Cassation rejected the petition of a female employee seeking to overturn the sentence of the court of Appeals which upheld her dismissal for disciplinary reasons i.e. absenteeism because of her failure to submit a medical certificate. In the account of the employee, she went ....

1 September 2016 • Insights

Resignation on line: procedure to be revised

A few months after the online procedure for the notification of resignation and agreements to terminate employment came into effect, amendments are already being recommended. The Employment Committees of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate have approved, with some observations, the proposal of Labor Consultants to introduce «corrective measures» to improve the new procedure ....

1 September 2016 • Insights

Court of Cassation: the concept of production unit for the applicability of real guarantees

With sentence no. 15211 dated 22 July 2016, the Court of Cassation upheld the decision of the lower courts, affirming that where a workplace coincides with the home of the employee, for the purposes of ascertaining if the size of the workplace is such as to require reinstatement of the worker, if unfairly dismissed, pursuant ....