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Occupational health and safety

The professionals provide specialist assistance, in favour of customers, in the field of health and safety at work under the Legislative Decree. 81/2008 shall be applied.

The vast experience gained in this specific field of labour law, on the border with criminal law, allows professionals to carry out their consulting activities with particular attention to all the various and multiple issues of compliance so as to prevent any form of employer liability.

Within this area of expertise, the professionals of De Luca & Partners:

are responsible for arranging the delegation of functions and appointments for the purposes of safety;
verify compliance with the requirements in the case of contracts or works or supply contracts; and
provide support to corporate clients in the event of inspections by the relevant bodies.

DID YOU KNOW THAT… COVID-positive workers can be readmitted to work only after a negative molecular swab?

28 Apr 2021

The “Shared protocol for updating measures to combat and contain the spread of the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 virus in work environments” was signed on 6 April 2021. It requires workers who remained positive after 21 days of the appearance of COVID-19 symptoms to be readmitted to work only after receiving a negative molecular swab or antigenic swab ....

DID YOU KNOW THAT… Covid-19 is one of the biological risks that cause infectious diseases in the workplace?

01 Dec 2020

Decree Law no. 149/2020 ( “Ristori-bis Decree”), the Italian legislation has implemented Directive 2020/739 of 3 June last (the “Directive“). The latter has amended Annex III of Directive 2000/54/EC on the protection of workers from health risks and safety arising, or likely to arise, from exposure during normal work to biological agents identified in the ....

Company Physician: Independent data controller

31 Aug 2020

On 23 June 2020, the Italian Data Protection Authority (“Garante“) published the “2019 Annual Report” (the “Report“) listing activities carried out during the previous calendar year. With the publication of the Report, the Data Protection Authority has confirmed what had already been stated in the note ref. no. 7797, dated 27 February 2019, concerning the ....

Covid-19 Committee in each single local unit: breaching the health and safety protocols constitutes an anti-union behaviour

27 Jul 2020

With an order dated 1 July 2020, the Court of Treviso has stressed that the setting up of the internal Committee pursuant to article 13 of the Shared Protocol dated 14 March 2020 (subsequently updated last 24 April) for the implementation and the check of the rules established therein within the workplace must take place ....

Litigation before the Labour Court.

30 Dec 2019

De Luca & Partners assisted a private foreign airline and its legal representative in the proceedings before the Varese Court introduced by the latter, against the inspection report issued by the INPS and the ITL, concerning the alleged illegitimate secondment of no. 31 employees hired in Spain (place of the Company registered office) and seconded ....