Publications

With the adoption of Directive (EU) 2023/970 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 2023, the European Union has taken an important step forward in tackling the persistent gender pay gap, strengthening the principle of equal pay for the same work or for work of equal value. The new instrument, based ....

On Wednesday, September 17, 2025, the Italian Senate definitively approved the bill containing “provisions and delegations to the Government on artificial intelligence,” connected to the national budget law. For Italy, this represents the first national legislation specifically addressing artificial intelligence. The bill, consisting of 28 articles divided into six chapters, does not directly regulate the ....

With order no. 24991 of September 11, 2025, the Italian Supreme Court ruled that the rules governing electronic resignations and the related right of revocation, set out in Article 26 of Legislative Decree no. 151/2015, also apply where the resignation and the subsequent revocation occur during the probationary period (i.e. “patto di prova”). The facts ....

By order no. 24922 of 9 September 2025, the Italian Court of Cassation once again addressed the sensitive issue of the abuse of parental leave, as provided for by Article 32 of Legislative Decree no. 151/2001, confirming the legitimacy of dismissal for just cause imposed on an employee who had used such leave for purposes ....

The Supreme Court Upholds the Dismissal for Just Cause of an Employee Who Used Parental Leave to Work at His Wife’s Seaside Resort Instead of Caring for His Children Parental leave, governed by Article 32 of Legislative Decree no. 151/2001, is an instrument designed to protect parenthood, conceived to allow working parents to devote time ....