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An employer who dismisses an employee enjoying increasing protections can make a settlement offer at the time of the administrative proceedings or when dealings with trade unions and authorities within 60 days from dismissal, for the sole purpose of avoiding lawsuits. The settlement offer would be in the amount of one month’s salary as per ....

Vittorio De Luca e Federica Parente hanno contribuito alla redazione del Quaderno nr. 68 Commissione...

With its judgement no. 24030 dated 24 November 2016, the Court of Cassation pronounced itself on the subject of dismissal for cause, by quashing with remand a judgement of the Court of Appeal who held jurisdiction. In the case in question, in confirming the first instance ruling, the Court of Appeal declared that the dismissal ....

With its judgement no. 24027 dated 24 November 2016, the Court of Cassation reconfirmed the legal principle pursuant to which, if an employer dismisses an employee for a specific reason (in this case because the employee had exceeded the number of sickness absence days), the employer may legally dismiss the employee a second time for ....

With its judgement no. 26464 dated 21 December 2016, the Court of Cassation confirmed that a manager must agree and confirm its leave with the employer, if this is set forth by a collective or personal contract. In the case in question a manager was dismissed for cause because he had gone on leave arbitrarily ....