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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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28 October 2020 • Insights

The employer may request a potential employee’s criminal status certificate in the pre-hiring phase

The Supreme Court of Cassation, by Order no. 17167/2020, considered the personnel selection process that requires involved candidates to produce their criminal status certificate as lawful. Facts of the case The facts in question regard a company’s failure to hire a candidate who had previously worked there with a temporary employment contract. Specifically, the worker, ....

28 October 2020 • Insights

Precautionary appeal blocks the prescriptive time period

The Constitutional Court, with its ruling 212 of 14 October 2020 established that a worker who challenges a transfer (and other acts of the employer subject to prescriptive limitations, including dismissal) with precautionary appeal, without filing an ordinary appeal to the Labour Court, is not subject to the prescriptive time periods established by law. Facts ....

28 October 2020 • Insights

DID YOU KNOW THAT… The DPCM of 24 October 2020 contains measures to deal with the Covid epidemic emergency in the workplace?

The DCPM was published in the Official Gazette last 24 October containing “additional implementation measures of the decree-law 25 March no.  19, converted, with amendments, by Law no. 35 of 25 May 2020, containing “Urgent measures for dealing with the COVID-19 epidemic emergency” and decree-law no. 33 of 16 May 2020, converted, with amendments, by ....

16 October 2020 • News, Insights

The Supreme Court reaffirms the right to the inalienability of holidays/annual leave (Guida al Lavoro de Il Sole 24 Ore, 16 October 2020 – Vittorio De Luca and Antonella Iacobellis)

Supreme Court no. 13613/2020 stated that: “The right of employee to paid annual leave must be considered a fundamental principle of EU social law, which cannot be derogated from and whose implementation by the competent national authorities can only be carried out within the limits explicitly indicated by Directive 2003/88. It is not compatible with ....

16 October 2020 • News, Insights

The service contract and the dismissals at the time of the COVID-19 (Guida al Lavoro de Il Sole 24 Ore, 16 October 2020 – Vittorio De Luca and Antonella Iacobellis)

Faced with the pandemic emergency in progress, the Legislator and the Government have introduced rules aimed at safeguarding jobs, allowing the use of wage supplements and imposing a ban on dismissal for justified objective reasons pursuant to Article 3 L. n. 604/1966 and collective dismissal pursuant to Law no. 223/1991, except for the following hypotheses: ....

16 October 2020 • Insights

Company agreement: representative requirements (Newsletter Norme & Tributi n. 145 Camera di Commercio Italo-Germanica – Vittorio De Luca, Elena Cannone)

Under order no. 8265/2020, the Court of Cassation defined the representative requirements that a second-level company agreement must contain to be indisputable to third parties, including INPS (National Institute for Social Security). The order disallowed contribution reduction on performance bonuses based on a company agreement signed annually by the employer and a workers’ representative. Ruling ....

10 October 2020 • News

Teaching in straming for the “executive master in data protection management (GDPR) & cyber security for digital transformation”

Martina De Angeli, from the Compliance Department of our Firm, took part in training sessions held last October 10 and 11 as part of the Module “Compliance Management. I Processi Di Compliance Aziendale” within the “Executive Master in Data Protection Management (GDPR) & Cyber Security for Digital Transformation” organized by Sida Group S.r.l. The intervention ....

8 October 2020 • Insights

The new legislation on transnational posting in effect from 30 September 2020

The reform of transnational posting became officially effective as of 30 September 2020, following publication of the Italian Legislative Decree 122/2020 in the Official Gazette, implementing EU directive 2018/957, adding a series of amendments to the current legislation on the subject contained in Italian Legislative Decree 136/2016. First of all the scope of rules on ....