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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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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.

26 December 2009 • Insights

The 2010 finance act has been approved

The Senate voted for the approval of the finance act 2010. As to the labour aspects, about EUR 1,100 millions are set aside for the welfare, of which 860 to allow the social security benefits for production bonuses and incentives.  

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