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By replying to questioning No. 7/2016 raised by Confindustria, the Ministry of Labour provides clarification on the right to priority and on contributory exemption. In particular, the Ministry of Labour was requested whether the employer may benefit from the contributory exemption under article 1, paragraph 118, of Law No. 190/2014, for the purposes of hiring ....

After long, complex negotiations, signatures were affixed on 10 December 2015 to the draft renewal of the CCNL of the Rubber – Plastic sector, expiring on 31 December 2015, which will be submitted to workers for approval by 1 February 2016. The various points of the agreement include (i) an average increase of Euro 83; ....

With circular n. 22350 of 18 December 2015 the Ministry of Labour made some changes to the forms currently used in order to verify in a more thorough way the validity of resignations by working mothers and working fathers (but also agreed terminations), starting from 2016. This control confirms the desire to oppose the phenomenon ....

With its order no.345 of 4 June 2015, the Authority for Privacy, ruled on the issue of remote control of workers’ activities. Specifically, the order in question confirmed that the employer cannot keep Skype conversations of employees, not even to document conduct harmful to the company including if the employee leaves the Skype icon enabled ....

On 15 October 2015, after just 24 hours of negotiations and more than two months before the expiration date of the current contract, scheduled for 15 December, the hypothesis was signed for renewal of the national collective contract for 2016-2018 for employees of the chemical-pharmaceutical sector. The agreement on one hand confirms the central nature ....