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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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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 ....

8 January 2016 • Insights

The termination clause in the agency agreement.

The Labour Section of the Court of Appeal of Milan, with its first-time ruling n. 218/2013, complied with the most recent case law of legality, which has changed its approach in the light of multiple changes to legislation made due to the effect of EU rights on internal regulations regarding rights to be recognised to the agent in ....

8 January 2016 • Insights

Court of Appeal of Milan: dismissal is legitimate once the protected period is over

With ruling n. 780 of 5 October 2015 confirming the decision of the first instance judge, the Court of Appeal of Milan, Employment Section, declared the legitimacy of dismissal for exceeding the protected period notified to a worker after more than one year from the expiry of the protected period itself and after a period ....

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 ....