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With its ruling no. 22627 of 5 November 2015, the Cassation Court confirmed the lower court decision, declaring that, following the introduction of the Collegato Lavoro (Law 183/2010), the statute of limitations and ineffectiveness of the challenge of a dismissal as per article 6 of Law 604/1996 also applies to managers. Basically a manager, like ....
Pursuant to article 2 of Legislative Decree 81/2015 enacted 25 June 2015, as of 1 January 2016, collaborations which are organised by others, with the exception of certain exclusions, shall be considered regular employment. Starting on the same date, article 54 of Legislative Decree 81/2015 offers customers/employers the possibility of stabilising workers who are already ....
The Court of Justice of the European Union, with sentence no. C-422/14 of 11 November 2015, intervened on two central points of the European directive on collective redundancies (98/59/EC). In this case (i) the calculation criteria for company size which makes the law governing collective redundancies applicable and (ii) the notion of redundancy useful for ....
With its ruling the Milan Court of Appeals, in confirming the decision of the lower court judges considered the application of art. 2119 of the Civil Code to independent contractors to be correct. This is due to the general scope of the principle it is based on, according to which the immediate withdrawal from the ....
Employment & Labour Law 4th Edition, published in association with Dechert - is now available online and is entirely free to access here.
What social shock absorbers does the Jobs Act include in the event of dismissal? And how do they reconcile with protections for maternity? We spoke with Elena Cannone, a lawyer from the De Luca & Partners law firm in Milan, specialised in employment law. Unemployment benefits (Italian mobilità) during pregnancy. This social shock absorber regards ....
A new post-crisis wind is beginning to blow: Italy is recovering its competitiveness and globally recouping its appeal.
With its order no.345 of 4 June 2015, the Authority for Privacy, ruled on the issue of remote control of workers’ activities. Specifically, the order in question confirmed that the employer cannot keep Skype conversations of employees, not even to document conduct harmful to the company including if the employee leaves the Skype icon enabled ....
