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In its Judgment No. 20949 of 3 October 2014, the Supreme Court of Cassation dismissed an appeal brought by a worker who sought classification as a manager, together with the corresponding pay difference.
In its session on Wednesday 8 October the Senate approved the government amendment, entirely replacing the delegating bill no. on labour (so-called “Jobs Act”), the approval of which the Executive had called a confidence vote. The text of the proposal now passes to the Chamber for a second debate.
With Circular No. 23/2014, the Ministry of Labour has enunciated the process for the granting of relief from social security contributions that, starting 21 March 2014, accompany solidarity contracts supported by the Extraordinary Redundancy Benefit Fund (CIGS).
Tommaso Nannicini, an economist at the Bocconi University in Milan and one of the closest advisors to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, confirmed that the Government’s objectives in reforming art. 18 of Law 300/1970 are to specify the “extreme cases” of illegal disciplinary dismissals where job reinstatement will be permissible, whereas real protection will be completely eliminated for economic redundancies.
Among the hypotheses under study of the Government also the possibility to transfer 50% of TFR in the employees’ payslips.
Court of Cassation, judgment no. 20106 of September 24, 2014, has stated again the principle according to which for the calculation of the period of job preservation in the case of illness also public holidays have to be included when illness occurred also in the day after or before it, because a continuing illness event is presumed to occur.
The Inps, with message no. 6973/2014, clarified that in case of sickness the doctor's prognosis is binding for both the employee and the employer.
Disable persons not hired by the company are granted with damages for the period between the commencement day ad the actual first working day.
