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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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27 January 2016 • Insights

European Court of Human Rights: the employer may control the employee’s emails under certain conditions

In its judgment No. 61496, handed down on 12 January 2016, the European Court of Human Rights considered the dismissal served on an employee who, during working hours, had sent messages to own relatives from the email account given to him for doing his work, thus infringing the internal rules prohibiting the use for private ....

27 January 2016 • Insights

Court of Milan: statute-barred salary receivables

With its judgment No. 3460, published on 16 December 2015, the Court of Milan has ruled, amongst others, on the objection of being statute-barred raised by a company in connection with the request of salary differences of some employees. In particular, the judge of first instance stated that, effective as of 18 July 2012 (date ....

25 January 2016 • News

What do people who use their email to chat with others risk? (Panorama, January 2016)

European Court of Human Rights no 61496 of 12 January 2016: bosses reading emails are not necessarily breaching employees’ privacy. Vittorio De Luca was interviewed by the magazine “Panorama”. Source: Panorama

21 January 2016 • Insights, News

What do people chatting on email at work risk? (Panorama, January 2016)

The story of a Romanian employee fired for his private messages sent from the office is making almost all employees nervous. Can companies really fire people for chatting or browsing online for personal reasons? Here is the interview given by Mr. Vittorio De Luca to the magazine Panorama. Source: Panorama           ....

14 January 2016 • News

Usare la mail aziendale per scopi privati: si rischia il licenziamento? (Donna Moderna, 14 gennaio 2016)

Un ingegnere romeno è stato licenziato per aver usato l'account aziendale per scambiare email private.

13 January 2016 • News

Lavoro: l’avvocato, mail aziendale ha carattere personale ma non privato

“Tanto rumore per nulla!”. E’ questo il commento dell’avvocato Vittorio De Luca, dello Studio De Luca & Partners, alla sentenza della Corte europea dei diritti dell’uomo sul licenziamento di un ingegnere romeno...

13 January 2016 • News

Court of Strasburg on Privacy: “Green light on monitoring employees’ emails” (Affari Italiani, 13 January 2016)

Ruling from the European Court of Human Rights: “A private company is not in violation of employees’ privacy when it monitors their communications on company accounts” Dismissal justified if …Goodbye privacy, at least on company accounts. A ruling from the European court of human rights in Strasburg, which is not an institution of the European ....

12 January 2016 • Insights

Italian Labour Market moves towards an unprecedented simplification (Invest in Lombardy Blog, 8 January 2016)

Year 2015 just came to an end and it will no doubt be remembered as the one that...