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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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13 January 2016 • News

Lavoro: l’avvocato, mail aziendale ha carattere personale ma non privato

“Tanto rumore per nulla!”. E’ questo il commento dell’avvocato Vittorio De Luca, dello Studio De Luca & Partners, alla sentenza della Corte europea dei diritti dell’uomo sul licenziamento di un ingegnere romeno...

13 January 2016 • News

Court of Strasburg on Privacy: “Green light on monitoring employees’ emails” (Affari Italiani, 13 January 2016)

Ruling from the European Court of Human Rights: “A private company is not in violation of employees’ privacy when it monitors their communications on company accounts” Dismissal justified if …Goodbye privacy, at least on company accounts. A ruling from the European court of human rights in Strasburg, which is not an institution of the European ....

12 January 2016 • Insights

Italian Labour Market moves towards an unprecedented simplification (Invest in Lombardy Blog, 8 January 2016)

Year 2015 just came to an end and it will no doubt be remembered as the one that...

11 January 2016 • Insights

Stability Law for 2016

Law no. 208 (so called “Stability Law for 2016”), issued on December 28, 2015, entered into force on January 1st, 2016. Such Law confirms exiting measures for reduction of the tax wedge on employment and, in the meanwhile, introduces new ones. Significant novelties have been also introduced in relation to social security contribution and social ....

8 January 2016 • Insights

Ministry of Labour: more checks on resignations of parents

With circular n. 22350 of 18 December 2015 the Ministry of Labour made some changes to the forms currently used in order to verify in a more thorough way the validity of resignations by working mothers and working fathers (but also agreed terminations), starting from 2016. This control confirms the desire to oppose the phenomenon ....

8 January 2016 • Insights

Tax and social security contribution allowances only for the second level agreements filed with the Local Labour Office (DTL) having jurisdiction.

Section 14 of Italian legislative decree 151/2015 has subjected the granting of tax and social security contribution allowances, provided for employment incentives contained in collective corporate or local agreements, to the filing on-line of these agreements with the Local Labour Office having jurisdiction. The new aspect compared to the previous legislative provisions which already provide ....

8 January 2016 • Insights

Court of Appeal: the “mass” illness makes it necessary to determine whether an offence has actually been committed

With ruling n. 48328/2015 the Court of Appeal, second criminal section, made it clear that the commission of offences cannot be ruled out if the collective absence is covered by medical certificates. In fact, according to the Supreme Court, if there are grounds for suspicion that the protest was based on illegal methods, then criminal ....

8 January 2016 • Insights

Smart working

Increasing productivity of work by encouraging work-life balance: this is the objective of the Government, which has presented a draft law on smart working. In this paper, which will be released after approval of the Stability Law, one of the two sections deals exclusively with smart working, that is distance work, regardless of the geographical ....