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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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29 December 2015 • Insights

Part-time option in the final years on the job (Il Sole 24 Ore – Il Quotidiano del Lavoro, 29 December 2015)

The Stability Law for 2016 introduces a special system which allows workers, if they meet certain requirements, to reduce their work hours benefiting from...

16 December 2015 • News

“Commercial agency agreements law and practice” – 16 December 2015, Assolombarda Confindustria Milano Monza e Brianza – Sala Falck, Via Chiaravalle 8, Milan

Vittorio De Luca and Giovanni Iannacchino, from De Luca & Partners, were the speakers at the conference “The Agency relationship” organised by Assolombarda Confindustria Milano Monza e Brianza on 16 December 2015.

15 December 2015 • Insights

Dismissal for objective just cause – company crisis not necessary – greater profit (Il Sole 24 Ore and Il Quotidiano del Lavoro, 15 december 2015)

With its ruling no. 23620 of 18 November 2015, the Cassation Court has declared dismissal for objective just cause...

11 December 2015 • News

“Responsibility pursuant to Italian legislative decree 231/01 and the management of the corporate criminal risk” – Milan (11 December 2015)

Alberto De Luca, from De Luca & Partners, was one of the speakers at the conference “Responsibility pursuant to Italian legislative decree 231/01 and the management of corporate criminal risk” organised by Convenia in Milan on 11 December 2015.

11 December 2015 • Insights

Draft law: Whistleblowing

Draft law 1751 currently before the Justice and Labour Commissions of the Chamber of Deputies, regulates “whistleblowing”, i.e. employee reporting of unlawful acts encountered at work- This is a system which guarantees legality that is not very widespread in Italy, but is much more so abroad, especially in Great Britain and the USA. It provides ....

11 December 2015 • Insights

Jobs Act: mandatory employment when the threshold of 15 employees is reached

Legislative Decree 151/2015, implementing the Jobs Act in terms of rationalisation and simplification of requirements, has repealed, effective as of 1 January 2017, paragraph 2, of article 3 of Law 68/1999. Therefore, starting on 1 January 2017, employers who employ more than 15 to 35 employees will have the obligation of hiring disabled workers as ....

11 December 2015 • Insights

Cassation Court; layoffs and selection criteria as per article 5, Law 223/1991

With its ruling no. 23609 of 18 November 2015, the Court of Cassation returned to the subject of the selection criteria followed by the employer at the outcome of the personnel layoff procedure. Specifically, the Court reiterated that the employer, when he defines the selection criteria as per article 5 of Law 223/1991 in the ....

11 December 2015 • Insights

Jobs Act: obligation of correct information notice

With the new article 4 of Law 300/1970, rewritten by the Jobs Act, the obligation to adequately inform workers on the procedures for using equipment from which remote control of work activities and work instruments may occur as well as the procedures for performing controls becomes the requirement for being able to use information collected ....