{"id":23089,"date":"2018-06-25T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delucapartners.it\/news\/lawful-investigation-activity-of-the-employer-but-with-limits\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T16:10:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T15:10:48","slug":"lawful-investigation-activity-of-the-employer-but-with-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delucapartners.it\/en\/insights\/giurisprudenza\/lawful-investigation-activity-of-the-employer-but-with-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawful investigation activity of the employer, but with limits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With its judgment No. 15094 of 11 June 2018, the Court of Cassation has stated that <strong>the controls carried out through an investigation agency <\/strong>(or security guards) may in no way <strong>concern the fulfilment <\/strong>or <strong>the breach of the contractual obligation<\/strong>, but must only <strong>limit themselves at ascertaining the carrying out of unlawful acts carried out by the employee<\/strong>, even when the employment is carried out outside the company\u2019s premises. In said context, the Court mentions some examples of lawful investigation control, that is when the employee (i) carries out a paid activity in favour of third parties during working time; (ii) carries out specific offences (sells a product or steals the collected amount), or (iii) carries out outside work related activities, thus infringing the competition prohibition (causing damage to the employer). In other words, in order to act lawfully, the investigator \u201ccannot go beyond the limits of the supervision of employment\u201d since such control is directly reserved, pursuant to article 3 of the Workers\u2019 Statute, to the employer or to its own collaborators, whose names and whose duties must be communicated to the employee. Otherwise, the investigation controls ordered are to be deemed unlawful with the corresponding unlawfulness of the resulting dismissal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its judgment No. 15094 of 11 June 2018, the Court of Cassation has stated that the controls carried out through an investigation agency (or security guards) may in no way concern the fulfilment or the breach of the contractual obligation, but must only limit themselves at ascertaining the carrying out of unlawful acts carried [&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-23089","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>Lawful investigation activity of the employer, but with limits - De Luca &amp; 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