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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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31 July 2024 • News, Insights

Italian Constitutional Court: reinstatement even if the fact underlying the dismissal for an objective reason does not exist

In judgment no. 128 of 16 July 2024, the Italian Constitutional Court declared Article 3, paragraphs 1 and 2 of Italian Legislative Decree no 23/2015 to be unconstitutional. The Court made this finding on the basis that the provision does not provide that the mitigated reinstatement protection also applies in cases of dismissal for justified ....

31 July 2024 • News, Insights

DID YOU KNOW THAT… there are criminal penalties for unlawful contracting, secondment and staff supply work? 

Italian Decree-Law no. 19/2024 (converted by Italian Law no. 56/2024) increased penalties for unlawfully carrying out staff supply work, contracting and secondment by expanding the cases for which there are criminal penalties. In summary, contracting, secondment, and staff supply work are considered unlawful when workers are used without meeting legal requirements, for evasive purposes, and ....

25 July 2024 • News, Insights

The conundrum of the most representative trade union organisations and identifying the applicable CCNL (Norme e Tributi Plus Diritto – Il Sole 24 Ore, 25 July 2024 – Vittorio De Luca, Roberta Padula, Alessandro Ferrari)

In a judgment of 10 April 2024, the Court of Campobasso dealt with a topic that, in recent years, has assumed ever greater importance in our legal system, namely the identification of national collective bargaining agreements signed by the “most representative trade union”. In a context in which Italian legislation refers, more and more frequently, ....

3 July 2024 • Insights, News

Company e-mail and metadata: the Italian Data Protection Authority updates the guideline document (Economy Magazine, July 1, 2024 – Vittorio De Luca, Martina De Angeli)

The Italian Data Protection Authority (‘IDPA’) recently returned to the issue of corporate email metadata retention by the employer. The order of 6 June 2024, entitled “Computer programs and services for the management of e-mail in the workplace and processing of metadata”, extends the retention period for metadata from 7 to 21 days. This new ....

28 June 2024 • News, Insights

Employee dismissal for unjustified absence on a public holiday is unlawful (Newsletter Norme & Tributi n. 179 Camera di Commercio Italo-Germanica – Vittorio De Luca, Roberta Padula)

In judgment no. 8956 of 4 April 2024, the Italian Court of Cassation addressed the issue of whether dismissal of an employee for taking unjustified absence on a public holiday is unlawful. An employee initiated legal proceedings to obtain a declaration that her dismissal was unlawful. The disciplinary offence alleged against her was “unjustified absence ....

27 June 2024 • News, Insights

IA nel mercato del lavoro: guida per adeguarsi all’AI Act (Agenda Digitale, 27 giugno 2024 – Vittorio De Luca)

Negli ultimi anni, complici l’evoluzione tecnologica e la pervasiva informatizzazione del lavoro, le realtà produttive di tutto il mondo si sono trovate ad affrontare importanti cambiamenti, spesso in assenza di un apparato di regole entro cui muoversi. In questo contesto, l’avvento dell’intelligenza artificiale ha rappresentato un elemento di novità, con rischi e potenzialità inesplorate che ....

25 June 2024 • News, Insights

Revocation of dismissal: to reinstate the employment relationship, it is sufficient to send the notice of revocation within 15 days

With judgment no. 16630 of 14 June 2024, the Italian Court of Cassation ruled that to reinstate the employment relationship under Article 18, paragraph 10, of the Workers’ Charter, it is sufficient for the employer to send the notice of revocation of dismissal within 15 days of the notice of dismissal, although it is not ....

25 June 2024 • News, Insights

Unlawful intermediation and labour exploitation: Model 231 becomes a company guarantee certificate

“Ethical codes, management and control models, and sustainability certifications are meaningless when, for the sake of achieving the highest profit at the lowest possible cost, a production system is allowed to be created down the chain that is based on production with an exploited workforce”. This is the conclusion of the Public Prosecutor at the ....