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Italian Law decree No. 25 dated 17 March 2017, published on the Official Gazette, has revoked the regulations on ancillary work, voiding completely the instrument already weakened by the latest legislative interventions applied by the amendments to the Jobs Act. Now new legislative policy instruments will have to be designed to fight unreported employment and ....

The Chamber, in the session dated 9 March 2017, has approved the Italian Draft Law detailing measures for the protection of non-entrepreneurial self-employment and measures aimed at favouring the flexibility in terms of time and place for employed work (the so called remote working). The provision now is sent back to the Senate for final approval. ....

On 27 February 2017 Federmeccanica and Assistal with Fim, Fiom and Uilm finalised the contractual text on welfare. The various provisions include among others: (i) employers, effective from 1 June 2017, shall make available to their employees a range of welfare goods and services in the amount of Eur 100 increased to Eur 150 and ....

On 21 February 2017, SMI (Sistema Moda Italiana) and the professional trade unions (Femca-Cisl, Filctem-Cgil, Uiltec-Uil) signed a draft renewal agreement of the National Collective Bargaining Agreement for the Textile, Apparel and Fashion sector. The new contract is effective from 1 April 2016 – therefore without interruption respect to the previous National Collective Bargaining Agreement ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 7166 dated 21 March 2017 has once again deliberated on the subject matter of disciplinary dismissal. In this specific case, the employee, holding the position of emergency technical manager was dismissed after a disciplinary proceeding for having refused to respond to two subsequent support calls respectively for a ....