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3 February 2022 • Insights

DID YOU KNOW THAT… as of 1 January quarantine is no longer classified as an illness?

With message no. 4027 of 18 November 2021, INPS published on its institutional website the following 19 November a clarification stating that the decree law no. 146 of 21 October 2021, fiscally linked to the 2022 Budget law, changed the regulations on protections envisaged during the Covid-19 healthcare emergency, inter alia, for quarantined workers. The ....

3 February 2022 • Insights

Collective dismissal: criteria for limiting the range of surplus employees of a department

The Court of Cassation with its order no. 1242 of 17 January 2022, ruled on the limitation, to a certain department, of the range of employees to dismiss for a collective procedure, setting out the requirements so that such limitation can be considered lawful. Facts of the case The event originated from a collective dismissal ....

3 February 2022 • Insights

Protected period: excluding quarantine and later voluntary homestay period due to Covid-19 infection

The Court of Asti, with the order of 5 January 2022, ruled that the quarantine period (as per art. 26, paragraph 1, Decree Law 18/2020 applicable ratione temporis) or voluntary homestay is not valid for calculating the protection period, not only vis-a-vis subjects who have had close contact with confirmed cases, but also regarding subjects ....

31 January 2022 • Insights

Continuance in effect: National Collective Labour Agreement effective until conclusion of a new one (Newsletter Norme & Tributi n. 156 Camera di Commercio Italo-Germanica – Vittorio De Luca, Elena Cannone)

By Order no. 40409/2021 dated 28 October 2021, lodged on 16 December 2021, the Court of Cassation reconfirmed the general principle that as collective agreements governed by ordinary law are an expression of the negotiating autonomy of the parties to the agreement, they must be considered valid and effective only within the time period agreed ....

27 January 2022 • News

Conference “Women: an engine of progress” (Elena Cannone – SIRM Commission for Women Radiologists, Milan, 11 February 2022)

During the  Giornata Internazionale delle Donne e delle Ragazze nella Scienza (International Day of Women and Girls in Science), celebrated worldwide on 11 February, the SIRM Commission of Women Radiologists in partnership with Fondazione Bracco organised “LE DONNE: UN MOTORE DI PROGRESSO“, at the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan. Our Managing Associate Elena ....

12 January 2022 • News

HR VIRTUAL BREAKFAST “Labour, Subsidies and Social Security changes in the Budget Law 2022” (De Luca & Partners – HR Capital, 20 January 2022)

Budget Law 2022: labour and social security news On Thursday, 20 January De Luca & Partners and HR Capital organised a new HR Virtual Breakfast. With more than 100 participants, the HR Virtual Breakfast organised by De Luca & Partners and HR Capital on 20 January, saw considerable interest on Labour, subsidies and social security ....

5 January 2022 • News

Lexology GTDT Market Intelligence “Labour & Employment in Italy”: an interview with Alberto De Luca

Alberto De Luca contributed to the drafting of the chapter dedicated to Italy in the “Labour & Employment” guide published by Lexology, illustrating the main legislative and jurisprudential news in a labour law manner and providing his point of view. Click here to read more.

5 January 2022 • Insights

Remote Working: Protocol containing guidelines for collective bargaining signed

On 7 December, the social partners and the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies signed the “National Protocol on remote working” (the “Protocol“). As stated in the introduction, the protocol“establishes the reference framework for the definition of remote working by expressing guidelines for national, corporate and local collective bargaining in compliance with the legal framework ....