News & Insights

Stay up to date with the latest news and the most relevant regulatory updates.

Think Tank

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.

Read more

All news and insights

Insights

Directors: waiver of remuneration must be specified in the contract

With its order 24139/2018, the Court of Cassation clarified that in order to render the office of a company’s director gratuitous rather than remunerated, a lack of requests…

Insights

Verbal dismissal: appeal and time limit, a confirmation from the Court of Cassation

With its order 25561 of 12 October 2018, the Court of Cassation handed down its ruling on the time limits by which the dismissal of an individual announced…

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…

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…

Insights

Privacy: the Decree of Alignment to the GDPR is now in effect (Il Giornale di Vicenza – Idea Impresa, 23 October 2018 – Vittorio De Luca, Gabriele Scafati)

On 19 September Legislative Decree No. 101/2018 entered into force (the “Decree”), laying down provisions to align the national regulatory framework to European Regulation 679/2016 on personal data…

Insights

All the reasons for employment are required to reassess an independent work relationship (Il Quotidiano del Lavoro of Il Sole 24 Ore, 22 October 2018 – Alberto De Luca, Lucio Portaro)

With judgement dated 15 October 2018, No. 25711, the Court of Cassation provided again its opinion on what are the requirements (and to which magnitude they are relevant)…

Insights

TV extras are not employees (Il Quotidiano del Lavoro of Il Sole 24 Ore, 15 October 2018 – Enrico De Luca, Elena Cannone, Antonella Iacobellis)

With a lawsuit filed at the Court of Rome, a worker claimed of having provided his work under employment conditions for two specific time periods for a company…

Insights

The 2018 Budget Law for the protection of employees who are victims of harassment (Newsletter Norme & Tributi no. 126 - Italian-German Chamber of Commerce - Vittorio De Luca, Luciano Vella)

The 2018 Budget Law (Law no. 205 dated 27 December 2017) introduced in the "Code of equal opportunities for men and women" (Legislative Decree 198/2006) new protections against…

Subscribe to our newsletter

Stay in touch with De Luca & Partners

Sign up for the latest news and privileged access to our firm’s resources.