Aiuti-ter decree and relocations
On 23 September, Decree Law 144/2022 ( Aiuti-ter (Aid ter) decree) was published on the Official Gazette. The Decree introduced significant changes which benefit workers and established new…
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Ministry of Labour circular no. 19 of 20 September 2022: new Transparency Decree clarifications
In addition to information already provided by the National Labour Inspectorate (circular no. 4 of 10 August 2022), the Ministry of Labour, with this circular, outlined the application…
Court of Cassation: informing only the Unions of forced holidays is unlawful (Newsletter Norme & Tributi n. 163 Camera di Commercio Italo-Germanica – Vittorio De Luca, Martina De Angeli)
By order no. 24977/2022, filed on 19 August 2022, the Italian court of Cassation held that a notice sent by the Employer to the Unitary Workplace Union Structure…
DID YOU KNOW THAT… assisted negotiation was extended to labour disputes?
Legislative Decree no. 149, of 10 October 2022, by inserting Article 2-ter to the Decree Law no. 132, of 12 September 2014, introduced assisted negotiation in labour disputes…
Aiuti-ter, more restrictions on large companies, the aim is to protect employment (Affari & Finanza 24 October 2022 – Vittorio De Luca)
The outgoing government focused on labour market regulation as part of its last actions. A choice made necessary by the impending economic crisis, which threatens to put a…
Accident at work, rebuttable presumption for the virus contracted at work (Guida al lavoro of Il Sole 24 Ore, 21 October 2022 – Alberto De Luca, Luca Cairoli)
Contracting a viral infection at work is treated as an illness covered by INAIL and proof of the aetiological link can be provided in court by rebuttable presumptions…
A written dismissal notice cannot be proved by witnesses (Modulo24 Contenzioso Lavoro of Il Sole 24 Ore, 11 October 2022 – Vittorio De Luca, Marco Giangrande)
A disputed written dismissal notice cannot be proved by witnesses, according to the Court of Cassation ruling no. 26532/2022. The dismissal is null and void for a lack…
Dismissal for exceeding the protected period declared null and void: reinstatement for companies under 15 employees (Norme & Tributi Plus Diritto of Il Sole 24 Ore, 7 October 2022 – Alberto De Luca, Claudia Cerbone)
The selective criterion based on the number of employees is unsuitable to legitimise a diversification of the consequences of null dismissal If the nullity of dismissals for exceeding…
Personnel report by 14 October (Il Quotidiano del Lavoro of Il Sole 24 Ore, 6 October 2022 – Vittorio De Luca, Stefania Raviele)
The 14 October deadline requires companies with more than 50 employees to submit the two-year personnel report for 2020-2021, governed by Article 46 of Legislative Decree 198/2006. This…
Unilateral termination of an enterprise bargaining agreement is anti-union (Newsletter Norme & Tributi n. 162 Camera di Commercio Italo-Germanica – Vittorio De Luca, Elena Cannone)
By an order of 25 April 2022, the Court of Bologna held that the early termination by the employer, effective immediately, of the financial aspects of an enterprise…