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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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10 May 2013 • Insights

Court of Cassation: dismissed who does not inform of the absence (Il Sole 24 Ore, May 8, 2013, page 24)

The subordinate employee has a binding obligation of “correct and timely information to the employer” of his/her incapability to carry out the duties he has been assigned to, starting from his own presence on the work place.

10 May 2013 • Insights

Inter-union Agreement about the performance incomes (Il Sole 24 Ore, May 7, 2013, page 24)

The Inter-union Agreement, signed on April 24, between Confindustria, on the one hand, and the three main trade union associations (Cgil, Cisl e Uil), on the other, allows companies without internal trade unions to enter into agreements concerning tax reduction in order to apply tax reduction for performance incomes in the measure of 10% for the activity exceeding the ordinary working hours.

3 May 2013 • Insights

The New Article 18: the absence of just cause does not always lead to a judgment of reinstatement (Il Sole 24 Ore, April 30, 2013)

The Court of Voghera, with the decision of March 14, 2013, confirmed that when the dismissal for just cause is not proportioned to the employee’s behavior it is unlawful, but implies just a compensation and not the reinstatement if the contested behavior occurred and the collective agreement does not provide a conservative penalty for the employee’s lack.

3 May 2013 • Insights

Contract for services: conversion in a subordinate contract only if the guidelines have been issued by persons empowered to represent the company (Il Sole 24 Ore, May 1, 2013, page 16)

Court of Cassation, with sentence no. 8863 of April 11, 2013, stated that within a contract of services the employment relationships are not charged on the principal if its employees, having though unlawfully exercised the directive power on the contractor employees’, were not empowered with the necessary powers to behave in the name and on behalf of the company.

26 April 2013 • Insights

Ministry of Labour: collective agreements may disregard the jointly liability (Il Sole 24 Ore, April 23, 2013, page 19)

The Ministry of Labour, with note no. 7258 dated April 22, 2013, specified that the national collective agreement may introduce derogatory disciplines to the jointly liability but only for wages treatments.

26 April 2013 • Insights

Ministry of Labour: publicized the vademecum for the correct application of Fornero’s Reform (Il Sole 24 Ore, April 23, 2013, page 19)

On April 22, the Ministry of Labour publicized the vademecum that represents the summary of the meeting between the General Direction of Ministry Inspective Activity and the National Council of Labour Consultants that took place on February 7 and 8, 2013.

19 April 2013 • News

“Individual dismissals after the Fornero reform” – Ordine dei Dottori Commercialisti e degli Esperti Contabili, 19 April 2013 – Milan

Vittorio De Luca and Giorgio Giannini were speakers at the seminar “Individual dismissals after the Fornero reform” organised by Ordine dei Dottori Commercialisti e degli Esperti Contabili on 19 April.  

19 April 2013 • Insights

Unlawful terminations: new indemnity without the reinstatement (Il Sole 24 Ore, April 16, 2013, page 23)

Court of Cassation, with sentence no. 9073/13, stated that the missed reinstatement of the employee unlawfully terminated has to be indemnified by the employer with a pecuniary sanction equal to 20% of the wages to be paid by way of damages.