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Research, training and international collaborations

De Luca & Partners’ Think Tank manages and coordinates research, training (internal and external) and editorial activities on labour law matters, protection of personal data and administrative liability of entities.

De Luca & Partners invests in researching and disseminating Employment Law material and for this reason collaborates with Il Sole 24 Ore and with the main employment law publications.

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28 November 2018 • Insights

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and AFV Beltrame Group winners of the 2018 HR Award

American Express and Rai Way (joint second place) were runners up in the listed companies category of the award promoted by the De Luca & Partners law firm with FCA. In the unlisted companies category, after Beltrame, Farco Group came second while Bricoman Italia ranked third.   The award, in its first edition, aims to ....

13 November 2018 • Insights, News

Six finalists for the human resources prize (L’Economia del Corriere della Sera, 12 November 2018 – Vittorio De Luca)

Six companies are the finalists of the Excellence & Innovation HR Award, the award promoted by De Luca & Partners that will be presented during an event scheduled for the evening of 27 November at Palazzo Giureconsulti in Milan. On this occasion, the companies will have the opportunity to present their projects and to discuss ....

7 November 2018 • News

The Lombardy stop of the Italian Tour “Attrazione Investimenti” organised by the Lombardy Region, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Ministry of Economic Development and Invest in Lombardy, at Palazzo di Regione Lombardia (7 November 2018)

The central theme discussed by several different speakers focused on the importance to attract investments in our Country, and in particular foreign capitals and investments in the Lombardy region. Attorney Vittorio De Luca, Managing Partner of the Law Firm De Luca & Partners, provided his expertise by discussing the issues surrounding labour law regulations that ....

7 November 2018 • Insights, News

The competitiveness best practices of the Human Resources Leaders (Il Sole 24 Ore, 7 November 2018 – Vittorio De Luca)

From the smart working extended also to the call center operators of American Express to favour the balance between private and professional life, to the interactive training platform that FCA Group made available to thousands of employees in 13 countries in the world to help promote skill building. From Rai Way’s creation of a new ....

31 October 2018 • Insights

Dignity Decree: Fraudolent staff leasing (Newsletter Norme & Tributi n. 127 – Camera di Commercio Italo-Germanica – Vittorio De Luca, Luciano Vella)

Law no. 96 dated 9 August 2018, with amendments, converting Law Decree no. 87, dated 12 July 2018 (the so-called “Dignity Decree”), reintroduced in the Italian legislation the offence of fraudulent staff leasing. It is a type of offence that was originally included in Legislative Decree 276/2003 and later repealed by the Jobs Act. More ....

30 October 2018 • Insights

Workers refusing to carry out duties not corresponding to their position is grounds for dismissal (Il Quotidiano del Lavoro de Il Sole 24 Ore, 30 Octobre 2018 – Alberto De Luca, Gabriele Scafati)

With a recent order (no. 24118 of 3 October 2018, the Court of Cassation has once again voiced its opinion on the lawfulness or unlawfulness of the refusal of a worker to comply with the employer’s request to perform lower rank duties than those to which he/she is entitled. The dispute started with the request ....

29 October 2018 • Insights

First disapplication of the increasing protections after the Constitutional Court’s ruling

On 26 September 2018, the Constitutional Court announced in a press release that it had declared art. 3 of Legislative Decree 23/15 (“Provisions governing open term increasing protections employment contracts implementing Law no. 183, 10 December 2014”) constitutionally unlawful in the part that is not amended by Legislative Decree 87/2018 (the “Dignity Decree”), converted into ....

29 October 2018 • Insights

Working hours and lunch breaks for part time workers

  With its judgement no. 21562 filed on 3 September 2018 (decision in camera on 13 March 2018), the Court of Cassation examined the issue of breaks at work (in the case in question, the lunch break), with specific attention paid to the case of a part time worker.     The Facts An employee ....