DLP Insights

With an Order dated 11 January 2023, the Italian Data Protection Authority (Autorità Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, the ‘Authority’) imposed on a company the payment of an administrative fine equal to EUR 5,000 for having kept active and read the contents of the email account of a collaborator. The facts During some ....

With the order No 7306 of 13 March 2023, the Italian Court of Cassation ruled that in the event that the worker, during the use of paid leave under Article 33, paragraph 3 of Italian Law 604/92, carries out the assistance activity in times and ways such as to mainly satisfy the needs of seriously ....

In its recent judgment No 5288 of 20 February 2023, the Italian Court of Cassation ruled that, with reference to the national collective bargaining agreement for employees in the tertiary sector (hereinafter the ‘CCNL’), the job retention period of 180 days, to be calculated in a calendar year starting from the first episode of illness, ....

With the recent order No 1584 of 19 January 2023, the Italian Court of Cassation addressed dismissal for ‘poor performance’, stating that conduct that had previously been the subject of separate disciplinary proceedings cannot be used as a basis for dismissal on the grounds of poor performance. Poor performance consists in a breach by the ....

On 29 December 2022, Italian Law No 197/2022, entitled ‘State budget for the financial year 2023 and multi-year budget for the three-year period 2023-2025’ (‘Bilancio di previsione dello Stato per l’anno finanziario 2023 e bilancio pluriennale per il triennio 2023-2025’ – hereinafter ‘Budget Law’) was published in the Italian Official Gazette. The above-mentioned legislation, among ....