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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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22 March 2010 • Insights

231/01: case-law opens new questions

Case law intepretation focuses on administrative liability of legal entities.

3 March 2010 • Insights

The so called “work related act” has been approved

The Italian Senate has definitively approved the so called “work related act” to the financial law.

15 February 2010 • Insights

The equality between women and men: stronger sanctions

On 20th February next, it will come in to force the rules contained in the Legislative Decree no. 5/2010 implementing the EU Directive no. 54/2006 concerning equal of opportunities and treatment between women and men at work.

18 January 2010 • Insights

Dismissal, unfitness does not lead to withdrawal (Court of Cassation, Labour Division, Judgment No. 21710 of 13 October 2009)

The Court of Cassation has established that the carrying out of private undertakings, guaranteed by article 41 of the Constitution, is not challengeable from a technical standpoint by the courts, but needs be carried out in compliance with the rights to work and health, with the consequence that the judge would not be breaching the ....

18 January 2010 • Insights

CIRCULAR OF THE MINISTRY ON ‘PRELIMINARY MONOCRATIC SETTLEMENTS’

The Ministry for Welfare, by Circular No. 36/09, has drawn the attention of Local Labour Authorities to the privileging of the ‘preliminary monocratic settlement’ in their respective inspection activities, in view of the rapid resolution of employment disputes.

18 January 2010 • Insights

Dismissal, operational sanction prior to the 5 days (Court of Cassation, Labour Division, Judgment No. 21296 of 6 October 2009)

The Court of Cassation has specified that the term of five days as from notification of the charge - whereby prior to expiry thereof it shall not be possible to inflict the relevant disciplinary sanction - solely depends on the need to protect the accused; failing any documental data, it needs be excluded that the provision was also inspired in the intention to allow the employer to effectively consider the measure to be taken and a possible change of mind.

18 January 2010 • Insights

Disciplinary sanctions, immediateness linked to the structure (Court of Cassation, Labour Division, Judgment No. 21221 of 5 October 2009)

The Court of Cassation has established that, in dismissals for cause, immediateness of the notice of the expulsive measure with respect to the moment of the failure which grounded said measure, or that of the notification, amounts to a constitutive item of the employer’s right of withdrawal, since the non-immediateness of the notification or of ....

18 January 2010 • Insights

Disabled person with a guaranteed job (Court of Cassation, Labour Division, Judgment No. 24091 of 13 November 2009)

The Court of Cassation has clarified that dismissal of a disabled person working when there are jobs in the company which are compatible with his/her disablement, even if covered by other employees, is unfair.