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8 November 2017 • Insights

The characteristics of the 231 Organisation and Management Models in a recent judgement of the Court of Cassation (Newsletter Norme & Tributi n. 118 – Camera di Commercio Italo-Germanica – Vittorio De Luca, Luciano Vella)

“The Jobs Act, and the different provisions that it comprises, including those relating to the progressive entitlements introduced in 2015, has reduced further the scope of application of the actual job guarantee and has set out a compensatory system that, at least in the intention of the law-maker, is certain and not discretionary” said Lawyer ....

31 October 2017 • Insights

Ancillary criteria for the qualification of a labour relationship as employment

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 23846 filed on 11 October 2017, intervened on the qualification of a self-employment relationship as employment. In the specific case, the Court of Cassation stated that subjugation to managerial and disciplinary power cannot be an exclusive criterion to determine whether employment is or is not occurring. This is ....

31 October 2017 • Insights

Disciplinary proceedings: The employer is not obligated to submit corporate documentation.

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 23408 filed on 06 October 2017, stated that there is no obligation for the employer when initiating disciplinary proceedings against one of its employee responsible for a breach to make available to him/her the corporate documentation on which the dispute is based. This is because, as part of ....

31 October 2017 • Insights

The renewal of the National Collective Bargaining Agreement (CCNL) for small and medium businesses has been ratified

The renewal of the National Collective Bargaining Agreement (CCNL) for small and medium sized metalworker and plant installation businesses signed on 4 July by the Unionmeccanica Confapi and the Fiom-Cgil, Fim-Cisl and Uilm-Uil trade unions has been ratified. The contract, whose official signature occurred on 21 October, was signed following the employees’ consultations occurred on ....

31 October 2017 • Insights

Change of residence not notified: notification at the old address is valid

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 22295/2017, ruled that notification of dismissal of a worker sent by registered letter to the employee’s old address of residence is valid if he/she failed to communicate the change of residence within the terms referred in the National Collective Bargaining Agreement (CCNL). In this specific case, the employer, ....

31 October 2017 • Insights

Tax relief for life-work balance is under-way

The Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, by decree dated 12 September, defined the criteria and methods of use of financial resources assigned to private sector employers that may have established in their company collective bargaining agreements provisions for balancing the professional and private life of employees. This is a tax relief issued to implement ....

31 October 2017 • Insights

Top manager and substitutive allowance for vacation days

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 23697, filed on 10 October 2017, confirmed the consolidated case law trend according to which a top manager, who, even if having the power of self-assigning the vacation period, does not exercise such power, is entitled only to a substitutive allowance for vacation days for the current year, ....