Contract for services: conversion in a subordinate contract only if the guidelines have been issued by persons empowered to represent the company (Il Sole 24 Ore, May 1, 2013, page 16)

Court of Cassation, with sentence no. 8863 of April 11, 2013, stated that within a contract of services the employment relationships are not charged on the principal if its employees, having though unlawfully exercised the directive power on the contractor employees’, were not empowered with the necessary powers to behave in the name and on behalf of the company.