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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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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 ....

20 January 2017 • News

Round table “Reshoring opportunities for the manufacturing sector in Lombardy” – Invest in Lombardy days, Milano (7 febbraio 2017)

Vittorio De Luca  will participate in the round table “Reshoring opportunities for the manufacturing sector in Lombardy”, which will be held on 7 February at the headquarters of the Lombardy Regional Authorities during the 5th edition of “Invest in Lombardy days”.

20 January 2017 • News

Round table “Reducing the cost of uncertainties for investors” – Invest in Lombardy days, Milano (7 febbraio 2017)

Alberto De Luca  will participate in the round table “Reducing the cost of uncertainties for investors”, which will be held on 7 February at the headquarters of the Lombardy Regional Authorities during the 5th edition of “Invest in Lombardy days”.

2 January 2017 • Insights

Dismissal for justified objective grounds cannot be based on the intentional behaviour of an employee

With its judgement no. 23735 dated 22 November 2016, the Court of Cassation once again draws the boundaries between ontologically disciplinary dismissal and dismissal for justified objective grounds. In the case in question, the reason given for dismissal for justified objective grounds submitted to the Court was “the almost total absence of concurrence, between your ....

2 January 2017 • Insights

The dismissal of a production manager who verbally assaulted a colleague during a trade union meeting is legal

With its judgement no. 24030 dated 24 November 2016, the Court of Cassation pronounced itself on the subject of dismissal for cause, by quashing with remand a judgement of the Court of Appeal who held jurisdiction. In the case in question, in confirming the first instance ruling, the Court of Appeal declared that the dismissal ....

2 January 2017 • Insights

Double dismissal is legal

With its judgement no. 24027 dated 24 November 2016, the Court of Cassation reconfirmed the legal principle pursuant to which, if an employer dismisses an employee for a specific reason (in this case because the employee had exceeded the number of sickness absence days), the employer may legally dismiss the employee a second time for ....

2 January 2017 • Insights

A manager must agree and confirm its leave with the employer

With its judgement no. 26464 dated 21 December 2016, the Court of Cassation confirmed that a manager must agree and confirm its leave with the employer, if this is set forth by a collective or personal contract. In the case in question a manager was dismissed for cause because he had gone on leave arbitrarily ....