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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

Renewal of the CCNL (Italian National Collective Bargaining Agreement) Rubber-Plastic: the draft agreement has been signed

After long, complex negotiations, signatures were affixed on 10 December 2015 to the draft renewal of the CCNL of the Rubber – Plastic sector, expiring on 31 December 2015, which will be submitted to workers for approval by 1 February 2016. The various points of the agreement include (i) an average increase of Euro 83; ....

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 ....

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

Milan Court of Appeals: termination of independent contractor relationship

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 ....