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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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27 February 2017 • Insights

Did you know that… adopting a policy on IT tools allows using the data collected also for disciplinary purposes?

The adoption of a policy regulating the use of IT tools (e.g. Internet, email, tablets and smart phones) made available to the employees in accordance with the provisions of the privacy regulations, allows the employer to use the data collected through such tools for all purposes pertaining to the employment relationship, including the disciplinary ones.

27 February 2017 • Insights

The relationship between a share capital company and its director is not comparable to a subordinate employment relationship or contract work

The Plenary Sitting of the Court of Cassation, with judgement no. 1545 dated 20 January 2017, replied to the question concerning the nature of the relationship between a company limited by shares and its director, alias if it can be classified as a contract work or as self-employment work (that is extraneous to such scenario). ....

17 February 2017 • News

Workshop “Procurement Practices in the Exhibit Installation Sector – Labor Law Considerations” – Made Expo – Inail, Milan (8 March 2017)

De Luca & Partners at MADE EXPO. On 8 March 2017, Vittorio De Luca partecipated as guest speaker at the INAIL workshop titled “Procurement Practices in the Exhibit Installation Sector – Labor Law Considerations”  

31 January 2017 • Insights

Employment & Labour Law – Global Legal Insights, Fifth Edition (Vittorio De Luca, Roberta Padula e Claudia Cerbone)

Also this year, De Luca & Partners participated in the drafting of the 5th edition of the Employment & Labour Law volume, which is part of the Global Legal Insights collection. Click here to read the detailed article.  

30 January 2017 • Insights

National Labour Inspectorate: the circular on the secondment of workers in the EU

With circular No. 1/2017, the National Labour Inspectorate provided clarifications to the inspectors on the “transnational secondment of workers in the framework of the provision of services“. The attention of the Inspectorate focused on the implementation of Legislative Decree 136/2016, which in addition to regulating the typical cases of cross-border secondment, extends, among others, its ....

30 January 2017 • Insights

Timeliness of notification upon full knowledge of the fact

The Court of Cassation, with judgment No. 50 dated 3 January 2017, intervened in the matter of dismissal for cause, clarifying that the timeliness of a disciplinary notice must be assessed with reference to the time when full knowledge of the fact is acquired, stating instead that for that purpose a mere suspicion is not ....

30 January 2017 • Insights

The employer’s decisions in dismissal for justified objective grounds are unquestionable

The Court of Cassation, with judgment No. 25201 dated 7 December 2016, issued a new judgement on the matter of dismissal for justified objective grounds. In particular, the Court of Cassation noted that Article 3 of Law 604/66 does not require that “adverse situations” or situations entailing “considerable extraordinary expenses” must be invoked as the ....