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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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24 December 2009 • Insights

Law no. 247/07: releifs for disabled people employment

Reliefs coming from the employment of disabled people are different depending to the subscription date of the agreement with the provincial district

4 November 2009 • Insights

Employment law: the conciliation doesn’t take off

The settlement before the commission established nearby the Provincial Labour Office, or nearby the unions, is a fast and cost-saving way to solve the employment law disputes, but in Italy this method hasn’t so far reduced the number of the courts’ employment claims.

26 October 2009 • Insights

Court of Cassation: Reconciliation, the omission is not objectionable

The lack of the mandatory out of court attempt to settle, which is provided as a condition without which the claim can not be proposed, has to be pleaded by the defendant in the defence

23 October 2009 • Insights

Outsourcing contract to be performed at the premises of the principal is genuine even when performed with equipments made available by the principal

The Ministry of Labour, with ruling no. 77 dated October 22, 2009, replied to an official enquiry of Confindustria (employers' association)

8 October 2009 • Insights

Work and privacy: technology and companies power control

Over six and a half million of employees use internet during working hours for non-working purposes. Every month, each employee sets to navigation around 38 hours which is equal to, more or less, a week of work.

5 October 2009 • Insights

Onus to prove mobbing (Cassation Court, Labour Sec., Decision no. 3785 of 17 February 2009)

The Court of Cassation has stated that mobbing is considered “conduct by a supervisor which is systematic and lasts over time which entails repeated hostile behaviour within the work environment, leading to forms of abuse of power or psychological persecution, and may result in the moral humiliation and alienation of the employee”.

5 October 2009 • Insights

The contracting party is obligated by occupational safety (Court of Cassation, Penal Sec., Decision no. 28197 of 9 July 2009)

The 4th Penal Section of the Cassation Court has established that the “contractor” employer shall be liable for accidents of its employees if it has not informed them of the dangers and measures to avoid them and if it has not monitored to ensure that such measures have not been applied.

5 October 2009 • Insights

SAFETY AT WORK: EFFECTIVE AS OF 20 AUGUST 2009 CORRECTING THE CONSOLIDATED ACT

Legislative Decree no. 106/09 became effective on 20 August, it integrates and corrects the Consolidated Act on safety at work (Legislative Decree no. 81/08).