In 2018, employers meeting specific prerequisites will have to meet the requirements of the new laws on mandatory hiring. The provisions of Legislative Decree No. 151/2015 come into…
The Data Protection Authority, on 15 December 2017, published on its official website a series of clarifications regarding the appointment and duties of the Data Protection Officer (“DPO”).…
The sixth edition of the Employment & Labour Law guide, updated to 2018 and extended to 29 countries around the world, was made available a few days ago.…
On 25 May, 2018, the European Regulation on the protection of personal data will become fully operative. The Regulation has the primary goal of harmonizing the protection system…
On 15 November 2017, the Chamber of Deputies approved draft law No. 2208 regulating the so-called whistleblowing. The main novelty concerns the extension of the protection also to…
The Court of Brescia, with its judgement dated 3 November 2017, has declared lawful a dismissal ordered to a female employee due to her failure to successfully overcome…
The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 27093 dated 15 November 2017 issued during a Plenary Sitting, intervened on the matter of travel allowance and related taxability and…
The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 23503 dated 9 October 2017, has ruled valid a dismissal that took place “through reading of the written notification before the…
The Court of Appeals of Milan, with judgement No. 131/2017, in confirming the first-degree ruling, stated that in collective dismissals the employer does not have any repêchage obligations.…
The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 25649 dated 27 October 2017, ruled as unlawful, persecutory and abusive, the dismissal ordered to an employee “for organisational reasons”, due…