Insights

With its judgement no. 609/2017, the Court of Milan, acting as Labour Court, has ruled on the issue of the validity of a letter of transfer signed in acceptance thereof.  In the case at hand, a worker went to court seeking a declaration of invalidity of a transfer enjoined to him because, in his opinion, ....

With its judgement no. 21062 of 11 September 2017, the Court of Cassation has delivered an opinion on the issue of just cause for dismissal previously confirmed by the Court of first instance of Campobasso, later overturned by the Court of Appeal, which instead found the dismissal legitimate as the facts in question were proportionate ....

The Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, which will become fully effective on 25 May 2018, has introduced among others the figure of Data Protection Officer (DPO). In consideration of the first requests for clarifications on their appointment, the Data Protection Authority, in its Newsletter no. 432 of 15 September 2017, has provided specific indications. In particular, ....

With its judgement no. 1091/2017, the Court of Milan has ruled again on the expiry of the limitation period of wage claims, in light of the modifications introduced by Law no. 92/2012 (so-called Fornero Law) to Article 18, Workers’ Charter. In particular, the judgement at hand reiterated that following the entry into force of the ....

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, with its judgement no. 61496/08, lodged on 5 September 2017 in the case of Barbulescu vs Romania, condemned Romania because the monitoring by a company of an employee, later dismissed for making a personal use of the company email messaging service, failed to strike a ....