DLP Insights

With its judgment No. 203 of 11 January 2016, the Court of Cassation has stated that the 30-day term, provided for under paragraph 5, of article 18 of Law No. 300/1970, to exercise the option right aimed at obtaining the 15 monthly salaries in lieu of the reinstatement in the job, in case of a ....

With its judgment No. 21 of 4 January 2016, the Court of Cassation has stated that the so-called omitted ruling flaw shall be triggered for the judge, also the court of appeal judge, who declares unlawful a dismissal served for cause without the court first checking the feasibility of turning it into a dismissal for ....

The employment presumption, introduced by article 2 of Legislative Decree No. 81/2015, does not apply to the collaborations (i) for which the collective bargaining agreements foresee specific rules; (ii) rendered in practising a profession for which it is necessary to be entered in a specific Roll, as well as (iii) rendered by directors and members ....

Also the holders of VAT numbers, just like freelance work coordinated by an employer (namely, the so-called co.co.co.), must comply with the provision under article 2 of Legislative Decree No. 81/2015 in force as of 1 January 2016. In short, all self-employed freelance work having the features foreseen by the aforesaid rule (personal nature and ....

In its judgment No. 61496, handed down on 12 January 2016, the European Court of Human Rights considered the dismissal served on an employee who, during working hours, had sent messages to own relatives from the email account given to him for doing his work, thus infringing the internal rules prohibiting the use for private ....