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With its order no. 505 of 11 January 2019, the Italian Court of Cassation established the principle that workers have the right to be remunerated for the time it takes them to put on work clothes at the business premises, only if it is demonstrated that workers are obliged to use company dressing rooms and ....

Since 1 January 2017 companies in the metalworking and mechanical engineering sector have been required, every three years, to provide workers employed under permanent contracts with continuing professional development courses of a duration of 24 hours per participant, within their working hours and according to the procedures identified by Fondimpresa [Italian Inter-Professional Fund for Continuing ....

Draft law no. 726 (the “DL”), which introduces significant changes to Italian Legislative Decree no. 231/2001 (the “Decree”) governing administrative liability for legal persons, companies and associations, including those not recognized as a legal entity (“Entities” or individually the “Entity”), is currently being examined by the Justice Commission of the Italian Senate.   The administrative ....

Contribution of De Luca & Partners on human resources as a sustainability objective. The HR is expected to have an increasingly substantial impact, as it can focus the whole organisation on ESG criteria. A sustainability trend was also identified in the projects that competed in the first edition of the Excellence & Innovation HR Award, ....

The Labour Division of the Supreme Court of Cassation, with ruling no. 31159 published on 3 December 2018, stated that when carrying out different tasks from those established in the probation period, dismissal of the employee due to failure to successfully pass the probation period, whenever unlawful, does not lead to the reintegration but to ....