Publications

  With Order no. 26697 of 21 September 2023, the Italian Court of Cassation ruled that an employer can deny holidays requested by a worker to avoid exceeding the limit of the job retention period only in the event that there are actual and genuine obstacles. The worker’s illness and the job retention period Under ....

Directive (EU) 2023/970 introduces new employee protection and new employer obligations on equal pay and transparency. The Directive requires Member States to adapt their local legislation, promoting (and even imposing) wage transparency including in relation to private employment relationships. The same obligations will apply to employers with between 150 and 249 workers, who will be ....

In judgment no. 20239 of 14 July 2023, the Court of Cassation dealt with the issue of dismissal due to unsuccessful trial period, in a case in which the probationary period agreement was null and void. The Court ruled that workers subject to the so-called “rising protection” legislation (i.e., workers hired after 7 March 2015) ....

After a long wait and several postponements, on 25 March 2023 Italian Legislative Decree no. 24 of 10 March 2023 (the “Decree”) was published in the Italian Official Gazette no. 63 of 15 March 2023. With the Decree the Italian legislator implemented Directive (EU) 2019/1937 “on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law and ....

After a silent and rapid incubation, computer systems that can perform tasks that would normally require human intelligence (also known as Artificial Intelligence), have become reality and represent one of the hottest challenges (if not the greatest and more complex) which enterprises are now held to face and in most cases, not to put at stake ....