Employment & Labour Law – Global Legal Insights, ninth Edition (Vittorio De Luca, Roberta Padula e Claudia Cerbone)

With its order of 4 January 2024, the Court of Ravenna referred to the European Court of Justice the judgment on the Italian legislation on the calculation of absences from work caused by disabling diseases in the protected period (periodo di comporto). The question posed to the European Court of Justice can be summarised as ....

With judgment no. 4350 of 19 February 2024, the Supreme Court of Cassation addressed the issue of conversion of the part-time employment contract into full-time in circumstances where the worker is constantly working extra hours and overtime. The employee brought a legal case to obtain the ascertainment of the conversion of the employment relationship to ....

From 1 October 2024, businesses and self-employed workers operating on temporary or mobile construction sites, as defined by the Consolidated Safety Act (specifically, Article 89, paragraph 1, letter a), of Italian Legislative Decree no. 81/2008), are required to have a licence, in digital format, issued by the competent local office of the Italian National Labour ....

In its recent Order no. 6782 of 14 March 2024, the Italian Court of Cassation affirmed the following principle of law: “in the case of a permanent employment relationship, the employer’s waiver of the notice period, in the face of the worker’s resignation, does not give rise to the latter’s right to obtain compensation in ....