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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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19 May 2020 • Insights

Accidents at the workplace for Covid-19: employers’ risks (Agendadigitale.eu, 19 May 2020 – Enrico De Luca and Alessandra Zilla)

The provision included in article 42, paragraph 2, of the “Cura Italia” Decree (Legislative Decree No. 18/2020) states that the Coronavirus infection contracted in the workplace is treated as an accident at work. This qualification opens the way to profiles of relevance, in term of responsibility, of the conduct attributable to the employer for non-compliance ....

15 May 2020 • News

Vittorio De Luca on air on Class CNBC at “The price of the virus”

Vittorio De Luca on air on Class CNBC at “The price of the virus” conducted by Andrea Cabrini, along with other guests including the Undersecretary of State of the Ministry of Labour, Stanislao Di Piazza. Among the topics, the responsibility of employers in case of contagion of employees and the social shock absorbers provided by ....

13 May 2020 • Insights

Liquidity Decree: credit guarantee only with union agreement (Newsletter Norme & Tributi n. 142 Camera di Commercio Italo-Germanica – Vittorio De Luca, Elena Cannone)

D.L. 23/2020 was published in the Official Gazette on 8 April. It contains credit and tax support measures for Italian companies (“Liquidity Decree”). The measures include government guarantees on loans from banks where companies have signed loan agreements. The guarantee is provided by a company 100% controlled by the Ministry of Economy and Finance (“SACE ....

8 May 2020 • Insights

Remote working and the right to disconnection: (Agendadigitale.eu, 8 May 2020 – Vittorio De Luca, Elena Cannone)

The tools used by the remote worker (e.g. laptops and smartphones) to perform their work allow a constant and continuous availability and connection, not only potential but in fact, constant and continuous. And this would risk to compromise the balance between professional and private life which is one of the requirements of remote work. The ....

8 May 2020 • News

Guida al Lavoro – Il Sole 24 Ore: De Luca & Partners deals with some critical issues in relation to injury from Covid-19

Vittorio De Luca and Antonella Iacobellis for Guida al Lavoro of Il Sole 24 Ore deal with some critical issues resulting from the fact that the “Cura Italia” decree states that the contagion at work from Covid-19 is equivalent to an accident at the workplace. Click here to read the DLP insights related to the ....

8 May 2020 • News

Vittorio De Luca and Elena Cannone: remote working and the right to disconnection

In the context of remote working, the technical and organizational measures necessary to ensure the disconnection of the worker from technological work equipment must be identified. The tools used by the remote worker to perform his or her work activity allow a constant and continuous availability and connection, not only potential but in fact, constant ....

8 May 2020 • Insights

Covid-19 injury, critical profiles (Guida al Lavoro de Il Sole 24 Ore, 8 May 2020 – Vittorio De Luca e Antonella Iacobellis)

With the provision of Article 42, paragraph 2, of Decree Law no. 18 of March 17, 2020 (converted, with amendments, by Law no. 27 of April 24, 2020), now known as the “Cura Italia” Decree, it has been definitively sanctioned the assimilation of contagion at work from COVID 19 to an accident at the workplace. ....

7 May 2020 • Insights

Coronavirus emergency and suspension of remuneration in case of force majeure (Guida al Lavoro de Il Sole 24 Ore, 7 May 2020 – Vittorio De Luca e Antonella Iacobellis)

Considerations at the time of COVID-19: does the current emergency integrate the hypothesis of force majeure for the suspension of remuneration? Does the current COVID-19 spread pandemic situation integrate the hypothesis of force majeure? In the light of the above questions, it has been deemed appropriate to make some brief reflections on the impact that ....