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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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4 May 2023 • News, Insights

DID YOU KNOW THAT… The INL has provided its operational guidelines for the issuance of authorisations under Article 4 of the Workers’ Charter?

The National Labour Inspectorate (Ispettorato Nazionale del Lavoro, ‘INL’), in note No 2572 of 14 April 2023, provided operational guidelines for the issuance of authorisations for video surveillance systems and instruments which enable remote control of workers within the meaning of Article 4 of the Workers’ Charter (Italian Law No 300/1970). As set out in ....

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28 April 2023 • News, Insights

The issue of video cameras in the workplace (Wired, 28 April 2023 – Enrico De Luca)

An order of the Court of Cassation recognises that an employer may use security camera footage for disciplinary purposes Employers may use security camera footage for disciplinary purposes. This has been confirmed by the Court of Cassation in Order of 23 March 2023, No 8375. Remote control of workers’ activities As is now well known, Article ....

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27 April 2023 • News, Insights

Deadline to apply for gender equality social security relief extended to 30 April

In its message no. 1269 of 3 April 2023, the INPS [Italy’s National Social Security Institute] extended the deadline for submitting the request for social security contribution exemption for private employers who are in possession, as of 31 December 2022, of the gender equality certification referred to in Article 46-bis of Legislative Decree of 11 ....

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17 April 2023 • News, Insights

Collective dismissals: the conditions to limit them to certain corporate departments (Newsletter Norme & Tributi n. 168 Camera di Commercio Italo-Germanica – Vittorio De Luca, Luca Cairoli)

Under the law that regulates dismissals in Italy, specific selection criteria must be applied in identifying the relevant employees, throughout the entire corporate group. However, according to well-established case-law, recently confirmed by the Court of Cassation, Labour Division, judgment No. 3511 of 6 February 2023, at certain conditions, an employer may limit the pool of ....

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17 April 2023 • Insights, News

Damages for demotion taxed if the nature of the compensation is not specified (Norme & Tributi Plus Diritto De Il Sole 24 Ore, 13 April 2023 – Alberto De Luca, Claudia Cerbone)

The applicability of an exemption regime requires the taxpayer to provide rigorous proof of fulfilment of all factual prerequisites giving rise to compensatory damages. The Court of Cassation, Tax Division, by Order No 8615 of 27 March 2023 returned to examine the complex subject of the taxation regime applicable to the compensation due in connection ....

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5 April 2023 • News, Insights

Wide-ranging whistleblowing protection (Italia Oggi Sette Affari Legali – 5 April 2023, Vittorio De Luca)

Protection also extends to shareholders, apprentices, the self-employed, and consultants. Wide-ranging whistleblowing protection. In addition to their current employees and collaborators, private sector companies must also provide protection to employed workers, apprentices, self-employed workers, freelancers and consultants, volunteers and trainees (including unpaid ones), shareholders, those exercising administrative, management, control, supervisory or representative functions (including if ....

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5 April 2023 • News, Insights

Failure to hire apprentice who was also a mother and mitigated proof of discrimination (Modulo 24 Contenzioso Lavoro de Il Sole 24 Ore, 5 April 2023 – Vittorio De Luca, Alessandra Zilla)

The Court of Cassation, in its recent Order No 3361 of 3 February 2023, reiterated its consistent approach concerning the allocation of the burden of proof in anti-discrimination judgments, specifying that the allocation criteria do not follow the ordinary criteria of Article 2729 of the Italian Civil Code, but rather the special ones that establish ....

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31 March 2023 • Insights, News

The use of homophobic expressions against a colleague constitutes just cause for dismissal

With Order No 7029, of 9 March 2023, the Italian Court of Cassation, reversing the conclusions reached by the Court of Appeal of Bologna, deemed legitimate since justified by a just cause the dismissal of a worker who, derisorily, had turned against a colleague telling her in dialectal form ‘but why did you get pregnant ....

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