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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.

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27 May 2016 • Insights

Court of Cassation: dismissal and the evidence of the grounds

By way of judgment No. 7558 of 15 April 2016 the Court of Cassation has set forth an important principle on the distribution of the burden of proof on dismissals. The matter flows from a judgment of the Court of Appeal of Milan which, by partially reversing the first instance decision, has declared the dismissal ....

27 May 2016 • Insights

Lombardy TAR (regional administrative court of law): a like on Facebook may trigger a disciplinary sanction

By way of order No. 246/2016, the third division of the Lombardy TAR faces the issue of the disciplinary significance of the opinion given by a civil servant in a social network, even if given as a private user. In the case at issue, a prison officer was suspended from service for a month for ....

27 May 2016 • Insights

Court of Cassation: the repêchage obligation does not impose the assignment to lower jobs

By way of judgment No. 9467/2016 the Court of Cassation has stated that the dismissal for justified objective grounds is lawful if the employer gives “evidence as to both the fact that the dismissal may be specifically referred to initiatives related to actual productive and organisational reasons, and as to the impossibility to use the ....

27 May 2016 • Insights

Court of Cassation: the relationship of trust releases the employer from continuous pressing

By way of judgment No. 10069/2016 the Court of Cassation has stated the principle pursuant to which “the employer has the power, but not the obligation, to continuously and regularly control its own employees”. In the case at issue and by reversing the decisions of the judges ruling on the merits, the Court of Cassation ....

27 May 2016 • Insights

Court of Cassation: the insults to the boss justify the dismissal without notice

By way of judgment No. 9635 lodged on 11 May 2016, the Court of Cassation has stated that in no way can the concept of insubordination be limited to the refusal to abide by the instructions given by the employer, but it extends to any conduct capable of causing damage to the company’s organisation. Well ....

27 May 2016 • Insights

Cross-border posting in light of the draft legislative decree No. 296/2016

The draft legislative decree No. 296/2016 redefines the rules on cross-border posting, being an obstacle to the so-called “unlawful triangulation of staff”, often used by entrepreneurs to benefit from more advantageous contributory regimes. The draft decree, drawn up for the purposes of implementing EU Directive 67/2014 (the deadline for implementation is fixed on 18 June ....

27 May 2016 • Insights

On personal data – alignment within May 2018

Three decisions concerning the use of personal data were published in the Official Gazette of the EU last 4 May 2016. Namely, the new Regulation and two Directives, that is that concerning the processing of personal information during police and judicial activities, and that regarding the ‘Personal name record’ (i.e. the ‘Pnr’), that is the ....

25 May 2016 • News

“Company welfare as an instrument to reduce tax wedge and the cost of labour” – HR Breakfast at De Luca & Partners

Enrico De Luca and Salvatore Vitiello (Employment Consultant of HR Capital) was a speaker in the first HR Breakfast appointment organised by De Luca & Partners on 26 May 2016.  ABSTRACT     To receive the English version of the slides, please send an email to press@delucapartners.it