Case Law

In Judgment no. 1672/2017, the Milan Court of Appeal has ruled again on the severance indemnity pay set out in Article 1751, Italian Civil Code. In particular, the Court has clarified that the expiration of an agency contract which is followed, without interruption, by a second agency contract with the same principal does not give ....

In Judgment no. 2600 of 2 February 2018, the Court of Cassation reiterated that if the signatory parties to a second-level collective agreement have not expressly provided for the need to serve written notices for termination purposes, the employer’s verbal withdrawal can be considered valid. The case at hand concerned a collective agreement – which ....

In Judgment no. 1712/2017, the Milan Court of Appeal has dealt with the issue of the omission by the employer of the annual objectives linked to the payment of a bonus. In this case, in the Court’s opinion, the employee claiming payment of the bonus is encumbered with the burden of “… producing and proving ....

The Court of Cassation in its Plenary Sitting, with judgement No. 30985/2017 resolved a conflict of case-law regarding the penalty in the case of disciplinary dismissal affected by a late claim of unlawfulness. The controversy from which the judgement of the Plenary Sitting emerged, arose from an appeal filed at the court by an employee ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 29753/2017, ruled on the lawfulness of a dismissal issued by e-mail. In particular, the Court, through a literal interpretation of the provision referred to in Law 604/66, wished to clarify that “the requirement of written notice of dismissal must be deemed fulfilled, in the absence of specific procedures, ....