Case Law

Court of Appeal of Rome, with sentence no. 267/2012, stated that employees who obtain the conversion of a fixed-term contract into an open-ended term contract are entitled to two kind of damages: indemnity in lieu of notice period set by the so called “Collegato Lavoro” and a further damage, i.e. an amount equal to the salary the employee would have accrued from the date of the filing of the judicial appeal to that of the sentence.

Court of Cassation, criminal section, with sentence no. 5420/2012, stated that the missed drafting of the document concerning the risks assessment, so called “DUVRI - Documento unico di valutazione dei rischi”, with the related missed risks assessment arisen from work interferences between the employees of the principal and those ones of the contractor, is a circumstance which entails liabilities itself, in the case of injury.

The Court of Cassation, with sentence No. 1462 of December 20th, 2011, has stated that the damages compensation which has to be paid to the employee, in the case of reintegration in the workplace as a result of unfair dismissal, has to include not only the period between the date of dismissal and the retirement but also the subsequent periods.

The Court of Padova, labour section, with sentence of January 17th, 2012, stated that the supply worker’s behavior who does not challenge the contract promptly and accepts further work supply contracts is considered a tacit consent of the termination of the previous supply relationship.

The compensation of the sales representative shall be seized up to the fifth. Court of Cassation, acknowledging the so called “par condicio” between public and private sector after the last legislative reforms, with the sentence no. 685 of January 18th, 2012, rejected the appeal triggered by creditors of a sales representative who claimed a seizure superior to a fifth of the sales representative compensation.