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In this case, in the Court\u2019s opinion, the <strong>employee<\/strong> claiming payment of the bonus is encumbered with the <strong>burden<\/strong> of <em>\u201c\u2026 <strong>producing and proving his achievement of the objectives<\/strong> that, according to the principles of fairness and good faith in performing a contract, should have been reasonably assigned with a view of continuity with previously set objectives and in relation to the company potential and contingent market conditions<\/em>\u201d. This is so because the <strong>omission<\/strong> in question constitutes <strong>contract breach<\/strong>, since the employer is obliged to assign the annual objectives, and does not fall within the scope of application of Article 1359, Italian Civil Code (relied on in the case at hand by the worker) according to which \u201c<em>the condition<\/em> (editor\u2019s note: achievement of the objectives linked to payment of the bonus) <em>should be considered fulfilled if this was missing for reasons attributable to the party that had no interest in the fulfilment thereof<\/em>.\u201d This provision \u2013 according to the Court \u2013 shall apply only in case of a future and uncertain event, on the occurrence of which the effectiveness of an agreement depends. This is so when an employer that has assigned the objectives has engaged in a conduct that prevents workers from achieving them; nevertheless, also in this case, the worker should prove not only the interest of the employer against fulfilment of the condition but also that the objective would have been achieved had the employer not thwarted it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Judgment no. 1712\/2017, the Milan Court of Appeal has dealt with the issue of the omission by the employer of the annual objectives linked to the payment of a bonus. In this case, in the Court\u2019s opinion, the employee claiming payment of the bonus is encumbered with the burden of \u201c\u2026 producing and proving [&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":[],"class_list":["post-23063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-law","category-insights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The burden of proving the achievement of the objectives to receive payment of the related bonus rests on the employee - De Luca &amp; Partners<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.delucapartners.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23063\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The burden of proving the achievement of the objectives to receive payment of the related bonus rests on the employee - De Luca &amp; Partners\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In Judgment no. 1712\/2017, the Milan Court of Appeal has dealt with the issue of the omission by the employer of the annual objectives linked to the payment of a bonus. 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