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28 September 2016 • Insights

Court of Cassation: invalidity of the probation clause leads to the application of legislation on dismissal restrictions

The Court of Cassation with judgement No. 17921 dated 12 September 2016 ruled that if a probation clause included in the employment contract is found to be invalid, the employer’s termination of the contract is subjected to the application of the protections against unlawful dismissal. Thus, the Supreme Court of Cassation reversed the interpretation provided ....

2 September 2016 • News

“Commercial agency agreements law and practice” – Assolombarda Confindustria Milano Monza e Brianza, Milan (11 October 2016)

Vittorio De Luca and Stefania Raviele attended as speakers at the conference organized by Assolombarda on 11 October 2016 to discuss the regulatory and contractual aspects of Agency relationships, with particular reference to the management of relationships by the principals. Click here for all details. Il rapporto di agenzia

1 September 2016 • News

Labour & Employment – Annual Review 2016 (Financier Worldwide, august 2016 )

Financier Worldwide canvasses the opinions of leading professionals around the world on the latest trend sin labour & employment. ITALY VITTORIO DE LUCADE LUCA & PARTNERS   Q: WHAT NOTABLE DEVELOPMENTS IN EMPLOYMENT LAW HAVE YOU SEEN IN ITALY OVER THE LAST 12 MONTHS OR SO? HAVE THERE BEEN ANY,SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO EMPLOYEE RIGHTS OR ....

1 September 2016 • Insights

Court of Cassation: no obligation to relocate executives

With sentence no. 14193 dated 12 July 2016, the Court di Cassation confirmed that executives dismissed for economic reasons need not be relocated within a Group. In the case examined an executive applied to the Courts, claiming that his dismissal from the Italian branch of an American multinational was unlawful despite the justification for economic ....

1 September 2016 • News

Labour & Employment – Annual Review 2016 (Financier Worldwide, agosto 2016 )

Financier Worldwide canvasses the opinions of leading professionals around the world on the latest trend sin labour & employment. ITALY VITTORIO DE LUCADE LUCA & PARTNERS   Q: WHAT NOTABLE DEVELOPMENTS IN EMPLOYMENT LAW HAVE YOU SEEN IN ITALY OVER THE LAST 12 MONTHS OR SO? HAVE THERE BEEN ANY,SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO EMPLOYEE RIGHTS OR ....

1 September 2016 • Insights

Court of Cassation: information due to the employer during an employee’s absence for sickness

With sentence no. 15226 dated 22 July 2016, the Court of Cassation rejected the petition of a female employee seeking to overturn the sentence of the court of Appeals which upheld her dismissal for disciplinary reasons i.e. absenteeism because of her failure to submit a medical certificate. In the account of the employee, she went ....

1 September 2016 • Insights

Resignation on line: procedure to be revised

A few months after the online procedure for the notification of resignation and agreements to terminate employment came into effect, amendments are already being recommended. The Employment Committees of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate have approved, with some observations, the proposal of Labor Consultants to introduce «corrective measures» to improve the new procedure ....

1 September 2016 • Insights

Court of Cassation: the concept of production unit for the applicability of real guarantees

With sentence no. 15211 dated 22 July 2016, the Court of Cassation upheld the decision of the lower courts, affirming that where a workplace coincides with the home of the employee, for the purposes of ascertaining if the size of the workplace is such as to require reinstatement of the worker, if unfairly dismissed, pursuant ....