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Alberto De Luca contributed to the drafting of the chapter dedicated to Italy in the “Labour & Employment” guide published by Lexology, illustrating the main legislative and jurisprudential news in a labour law manner and providing his point of view. Click here to read more.

In its ruling no. 2286 of 3 December 2021, the Court of Venice, Civil Section II, ruled on the legitimacy of an audio recording made by a third party during a court case. Two of the three defendants in their proceedings against the same employer, had produced an audio recording of a work meeting held ....

On 12 November 2021, in its ruling no. 33809, the Court of Cassation returned to the issue of employer controls using electronic tools, considering the principles and restrictions applicable to personal data protection. The Supreme Court confirmed that an employee’s PC data are company assets. Therefore, an employer can acquire and use the data for ....

By an order of 11 August, the Court of Milan ruled that allowing a company’s official to disseminate hostile messages through the social networks against a union, its representatives and its actions is anti-union behaviour. The Court also found that the Company had encouraged its employees to join another union, by adding a link to ....

With its order no. 32506 of 8 November 2021, the Court of Cassation addressed the issue of judicial review of the technical, organisational and production reasons underlying transfers under art. 2103 of the Italian Civil Code. The case in question arose from an employee’s legal application for a declaration of the unlawfulness of the transfer ....