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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.

De Luca & Partners invests in researching and disseminating Employment Law material and for this reason collaborates with Il Sole 24 Ore and with the main employment law publications.

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1 September 2016 • Insights

Court of Cassation: transfer and discrimination

With sentence no. 15435 dated 26 July 2016, the Court of Cassation affirmed the principle according to which the evidence of discrimination provided by an employee may be circumstantial or based on presumption. In the case in point, a female employee was dismissed for not accepting transfer to a Point of Sale about 150 km ....

1 September 2016 • Insights

Court of Cassation: company documents usable during a Court case

With sentence no. 14305/2016 the Court of Cassation confirmed the unlawfulness of dismissal for disciplinary reasons in the case of an employee dismissed during a dispute over the recognition by the employer of a revised job description involving additional duties. The employee in question took possession of documents useful for the case, sending them from ....

1 September 2016 • News

Labour & Employment – Annual Review 2016 (Financier Worldwide, august 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 • 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 ....

4 August 2016 • Insights

“Penalties after falsified evidence of attendance at work” (Il Giuslavorista.it, 04 August 2016 – Enrico De Luca, Luciano Vella)

L’entrata in vigore, lo scorso 13 luglio, del decreto legislativo n. 116 ha riaperto il dibattito sul tema della tutela del lavoratore dipendente di una pubblica amministrazione.

1 August 2016 • News

HR Breakfast “Dealing with unions in the USA and in Italy – Different jurisdictions and different approaches” – 8 September 2016

Vittorio De Luca (Managing Partner at De Luca & Partners) and Robert Chiaravalli (President at Strategic Labor & Human Resources LLC) will be speakers at the HR Breakfast appointment organised by De Luca & Partners on 8 September 2016. Exceptionally, the event will be taught in English and will be held in Milan at Promos (via Meravigli, 7) ....

26 July 2016 • Insights

Court of Appeal in Milan: messages in a mailing list protected like private correspondence

The Court of Appeal in Milan, in its ruling No. 439/2016, confirmed the principle that e-mail messages exchanged among employees as part of a mailing list, constitute private correspondence and therefore fall into the category of protected communications of a personal nature. According to the Court, the personality of the communication “lies in the predetermination ....

26 July 2016 • Insights

Court of Cassation: prolonged absence from the new job location does not justify dismissal

The Court of Cassation with judgement No. 13455, filed on 30 June 2016, said the dismissal for prolonged absence imposed on a working mother for failing to comply with her employer’s order to resume service at a business unit located in a different municipality from the one where the woman worked at the time of ....