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With judgment no. 26956 of October 7, 2025, the Italian Supreme Court – Labor Division – confirmed the legitimacy of an employee’s dismissal for exceeding the statutory sick leave period (i.e. “periodo di comport”, the maximum period of protected absence due to illness), reiterating that it is not sufficient for the worker to suffer from ....

Key principle With order no. 27132 of October 9, 2025, the Italian Supreme Court – Labor Division – ruled that a company receiving a “single inspection and notification report” (i.e “verbale unico di accertamento e notificazione”) issued by the Italian Labor Inspectorate has a legitimate interest in bringing an action to annul it, even in ....

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 ....