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However, as clarified by this judgement, the letter of transfer of employment had been signed \u201cin acceptance thereof\u201d by the worker, thus expressing his <strong>consent to the change of workplace<\/strong>.\u00a0 To make matters worse, according to the Court, since the worker was a member of the provincial executive board of a renowned trade union and performed trade-union activities \u201cone has to assume that he knew the meaning of its consent\u201d.\u00a0 Based on the above, it follows that in order to object that the consent is invalid, it is necessary to substantiate and prove that the consent is faulty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its judgement no. 609\/2017, the Court of Milan, acting as Labour Court, has ruled on the issue of the validity of a letter of transfer signed in acceptance thereof.\u00a0 In the case at hand, a worker went to court seeking a declaration of invalidity of a transfer enjoined to him because, in his opinion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,177,190],"tags":[2324,2323,2322],"class_list":{"0":"post-23011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-case-law","7":"category-insights","9":"tag-consenso-al-mutamento-della-sede-di-lavoro","10":"tag-lettera-di-trasferimento","11":"tag-violazione-dellart-2013-cod-civ"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A letter of transfer signed in acceptance thereof is valid - De Luca &amp; 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