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Examination of the relationship between contractual and corporate welfare (where works and services are not subject to contributions and taxation) and the social security contribution obligation compliance document (DURC) which is indispensable for accessing the regulatory and contributory benefits provided for by the labour and social legislation Contractual welfare is the worker protection and welfare ....

The Court of Vasto (judgement 116/2022), has ruled that non-compliance, by the employer, of the commitment to reopen negotiations for the renewal of the company’s supplementary agreement, in breach of the conciliation agreement signed with a trade union organisation, constitutes anti-union behaviour. According to the Court, the conduct violated the principles of fairness and good ....

The Italian Data Protection Authority (“Garante”), in its 28 April 2022 injunction of 28 April 2022, imposed on a company in charge of managing the municipal waste collection service for the Municipality of Taranto (the “Municipality”), a € 200,000 fine for having entrusted processing personal data to a sub-processor without having requested and obtained specific ....

Following a report by a group of worker-members of a cooperative, the Data Protection Authority (“Garante”) established the unlawfulness of certain processing operations carried out through the publication of information on the assessment of their work, on the company notice board. As part of a “contest with prizes for worker-members, entitled “Guardiamoci in faccia…soci!” (Let’s ....

In ruling no. 13063 of 26 April 2022, the Court of Cassation extended the scope of application of the reinstatement protection to cases where the contested fact is found to exist and is not among the offences punished by the sector’s collective agreement with a conservative penalty. The Supreme Court extended the scope of the ....