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Company email: the employer’s right of defence in court cannot limit the worker’s right to the protection of personal data

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…

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Italian Court of Cassation: when can an abuse of leaves under Italian Law 104/92 be recognized?

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…

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Italian Court of Cassation: transfer of an illegitimate business branch, previous damages only with formal notice

With judgment No 6902 of 8 March 2023 (which follows two further similar rulings: judgments No 5788 and No 5796, both dated 24 February 2023, of the Italian…

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DID YOU KNOW THAT… the Italian Legislative Decree implementing the so-called Whistleblowing Directive results in new obligations for employers?

Italian Legislative Decree no. 24 of 10 March 2023 (the ‘Decree’), implementing Directive (EU) 2019/1937 and ‘on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law and…

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Italian CCNL (Contratto Collettivo Nazionale Lavoro – National collective bargaining agreement) Commerce: the rules relating to the protected period

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…

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Dismissal for poor performance is unlawful if based on conduct previously raised against the worker

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…

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DID YOU KNOW THAT… the right to remote working has been extended/renewed for some categories of workers?

Italian Law of 24 February 2023, No 14 converted into law, with some modifications, Italian Decree-law of 29 December 2022, No 198, containing ‘urgent provisions regarding legislative deadlines.…

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Transparency Decree: the first indications of the Personal Data Protection Authority (Newsletter Norme & Tributi no. 166 Camera di Commercio Italo-Germanica – Vittorio De Luca, Martina De Angeli)

On 24 January 2023, the Personal Data Protection Authority (the "Authority") gave the first interpretative and operative indications on the processing by employers of employees’ personal data using…

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Contractual joint and several liability: contribution recovery is not subject to the two-year limitation period (Norme & Tributi Plus Diritto of Il Sole 24 Ore, 22 February 2023 – Vittorio De Luca, Stefania Raviele)

The order under comment confirms the Supreme Court case law which differentiates the deadlinesapplicable to the actions carried out by employees under procurement contract and those governingcontribution recovery…

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Disciplinary power: employer’s discretion and dismissal lawfulness (Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Italy news, 14 February 2023 – Enrico De Luca, Luca Cairoli)

To verify the existence of just cause or justified subjective reason for dismissal, the fact that a contractual breach similar to that contested against the dismissed employee, committed…

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