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The Court of Appeal of Trento decided with judgment No. 8 of 6 July 2023 that an employer cannot dismiss a worker suffering from an illness that leads to a disability immediately after exceeding the protected period, but must make reasonable arrangements for the preservation of the job, in compliance with the principles of good ....
By judgment No. 450 of 13 June 2023, the Court of Appeal of Messina established that if an employer has not trained employees on the specific risks related to the tasks for which they are employed, sick days attributable to harmful working conditions do not count towards the protected period. This applies even if the ....
With its recent judgment No. 17643 of 20 June 2023, the Italian Court of Cassation affirmed the principle that the limitation period for a worker’s right to receive compensation in lieu of untaken holiday leave and weekly rest starts from the termination of the employment relationship, except where the employer proves that the worker was ....
Workers must be informed of the use of fully automated decision-making or monitoring systems. In particular they must be informed of the aspects of the relationship involved, the purposes and purposes of the systems, and how they operate. The emergence of technologies using artificial intelligence systems and their increasing use has ushered in a new ....
The Ministry of Labour and Social Policies has published on its institutional website a Vademecum providing guidelines for the management of workers who are exposed (indoors and outdoors) to high temperatures during the summer period. The preamble states that “in the light of climate change scenarios, the protection of workers from temperature-related accident risks is ....
By judgment No. 18168 of 26 June 2023, the Italian Court of Cassation once again addressed the issue of the limits of employer controls via the use of IT tools, establishing the unlawfulness of dismissal and the non-usability of evidence gathered following a check on an employee’s company e-mail carried out by the employer company ....
The Italian Court of Cassation in its very recent judgment No. 20239 of 14 July 2023 ruled on the issue of an employer’s withdrawal ad nutum that was given on the basis of a trial period agreement, which was declared null and void, stating that, where the dismissal does not fall under any of the ....
By judgment No. 429 of 27 April 2023, the Court of Turin established that resignation for just cause giving entitlement to the unemployment allowance ‘Naspi’ does not require the worker to prove that the transfer was unjustified if the new place of work is more than 50 km away from his/her residence. The facts of ....
