Case Law

By way of order No. 246/2016, the third division of the Lombardy TAR faces the issue of the disciplinary significance of the opinion given by a civil servant in a social network, even if given as a private user. In the case at issue, a prison officer was suspended from service for a month for ....

Dans son arrêt no 9635 du 11 mai 2016, la Cour de cassation a affirmé que la notion d’insubordination ne peut pas être limitée au refus d’obtempérer aux dispositions décidées par l’employeur, mais s’étend à tout comportement susceptible de porter préjudice à l’organisation de l’entreprise. Or, selon la Cour suprême, l’insulte adressée au supérieur hiérarchique, ....

By way of judgment No. 9467/2016 the Court of Cassation has stated that the dismissal for justified objective grounds is lawful if the employer gives “evidence as to both the fact that the dismissal may be specifically referred to initiatives related to actual productive and organisational reasons, and as to the impossibility to use the ....

By way of judgment No. 10069/2016 the Court of Cassation has stated the principle pursuant to which “the employer has the power, but not the obligation, to continuously and regularly control its own employees”. In the case at issue and by reversing the decisions of the judges ruling on the merits, the Court of Cassation ....

La Cour de cassation, dans son arrêt no 6775 du 7 avril 2016, a affirmé qu’un travailleur a le droit d’accéder à son dossier personnel contenant les documents et les actes se rapportant à son parcours professionnel et à l’avancement de sa carrière au titre de salarié ayant une relation de travail en cours. Dans ....

By judgment no. 7313 published on 13 April 2016, the Court of Cassation has ruled that, in order to assess the existence of an accident on the way to and from work in case of use of a bicycle, it is necessary to keep into account not only the distance between home and workplace but ....

By judgment no. 6265, published on 31 March 2016, the Court of Cassation has sanctioned the principle whereby an employee refusing to transfer may be considered as resigning from employment. In the case in question, the worker had contested the legitimacy of the employer’s order to transfer to another production unit, and refused to comply. ....

The Court of Cassation, IV Criminal Section, by judgment no. 12683 of 29 March 2016, has ruled that an employer is responsible for any injury caused by inexperience, negligence or imprudence of workers, except in case of absolute irrationality of the behaviour of the latter. In the case at hand, a worker fell disastrously on ....