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20 July 2020 • Insights

Remote working: how to improve it after the emergency phase (Agendadigitale.eu, 20 July 2020 – Enrico De Luca e Alessandra Zilla)

The COVID-19 emergency has awakened interest in remote or agile working, with the aim of limiting the spread of the virus and ensuring business continuity,. In the emergency phase a simplified mode of remote working has been introduced: until the end of the epidemiological state of emergency, the remote working may be activated even in ....

1 July 2020 • Insights

The remedy of reinstatement presumes the conscious abuse of the employer’s disciplinary power (Il Quotidiano del Lavoro de Il Sole 24 Ore, 1 July 2020 – Enrico De Luca, Alessandra Zilla)

With the recent decision no. 1170 of 17 June, the Court of Cassation has provided interesting clarifications on the fourth paragraph of Article 18 of Law no. 300/70 (so called “Statuto dei Lavoratori”), a provision which – as is well known – provides for the reinstatement of an employee unlawfully dismissed if the claimed fact ....

29 June 2020 • Insights

Authority: legal classification for the purposes of Supervisory Body privacy

With a note of 16 October 2019, the Association of Supervisory Body Members as per Legislative Decree  231/2001 (the “Association”) asked the Italian Data Protection Authority (the “Authority”) for a meeting to discuss the issue of the subjective classification for privacy purposes of the Supervisory Body (the “OdV, Organismo di Vigilanza). The Association’s arguments The ....

29 June 2020 • Insights

Coordination between the Safe Italy Decree Law and Relaunch Decree Law: INL note no. 160 of 3 June 2020

With its note no. 160 of 3 June 2020 the National Labour Inspectorate provided some clarifications concerning the amendments made to Decree Law no. 34/2020 (“Relaunch D.L.”)to D.L. no. 18/2020 (“Save Italy D.L.”) already converted by Law no. 27/2020, in order to help in the interpreter in an analysis of the various regulatory provisions that ....

29 June 2020 • Insights

Probationary period agreement: duration longer than that cited in NCA, admissibility and conditions

The Court of Cassation, with its ordinance no. 9789 of 26 May 2020, stated that the clause of the individual contract establishing a probationary period agreement longer than that established by the sector collective bargaining must be considered more unfavourable for the worker. Therefore, it must be replaced by law according to art. 2077, second ....

29 June 2020 • Insights

The scope and limitations of non-competition clauses

The Court of Cassation, with its ordinance no. 9790 of 26 May 2020, took the opportunity to return to express an opinion on the legal grounds of the non-competition clause as per art. 2125 of the Civil Code. The Court took the time to specifically analyse the purposes of the agreement, the limits to its ....

29 June 2020 • Insights

Occupational injuries: Employer liability is not automatic

The Court of Cassation, with its ordinance no. 10404 of 1 June 2020, in line with a consolidated orientation, expressed the principle based on which Inial’s recognition of an occupational injury or disease does not automatically lead to the employer’s liability for the damages suffered by the employee. Facts of the case An employer of ....

29 June 2020 • Insights

DID YOU KNOW THAT… In the event of unlawful formally vitiated dismissal, the indemnity cannot be tied to seniority alone?

Last 25 June the Constitutional Court press office issued a release stating that the Court had examined, on 24 June, the issues on the constitutionality raised by the Courts of Rome and Bari regarding the criteria for determining the indemnity to pay in the presence of a dismissal vitiated only from a formal and procedural ....