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29 mars 2013 • Insights

Court of Cassation: the dismissal for cash desk abandonment is lawful (Il Sole 24 ore, March 29, 2013, page 21)

Court of Cassation, with sentence no. 7829 of March 28, 2013, confirmed that the bahaviour of a bank’s employee who leaves the cash desk unattended for the coffee break represents just cause for dismissal.

22 mars 2013 • Insights

TEMPORARY SUPPLY CONTRACT WITHOUT REASONS (Il Sole 24 Ore, March 21, 2013, page 24)

On March 20, the Ministry of Labor signed the decree that enforces for the “disadvantaged employees” the possibility of entering into a temporary supply contract without technical, productive, organizational and substitutive needs, necessary for a term provision.

22 mars 2013 • Insights

COLLECTIVE DISMISSALS: THE AGREEMENT WITH THE UNIONS PROVIDING THE CHOICE CRITERIUM OF IMMINENT RETIREMENT IS LAWFUL (Il Sole 24 Ore, March 18, 2013, page 31)

The Court of Cassation with sentence no. 5143 of March 1, confirmed the statement of sentence no. 12257/2012 according to which the criterium provided by the agreement with the Unions for the choice of the employees to be dismissed can be just one and it can be represented by the imminence of retirement, if it allows to make a strict classification and it can be applied and controlled without employer’s discretional choice.

22 mars 2013 • Insights

Court of Cassation: the employee has not to be always re-qualified (Il Sole 24 Ore, Marzo 19, 2013, page 19)

Court of Cassation, with sentence no. 5963 of March 11, stated that a company that cancels a professional position is not obliged to train the relevant employee for different duties, but it can dismiss him/her when equivalent duties to be assigned do not exist.

15 mars 2013 • Insights

UNLAWFUL TERM: CHALLENGING WITHIN 120 DAYS (Il Sole 24 Ore, March 11, 2013, page 29)

Amending the rules of individual dismissals, “Fornero Reform” extended the terms for challenging out of Court the fixed term contract in the case of unlawful term provision (Law no. 92/2012 amended Article 32 of Law no. 183/2010).

8 mars 2013 • Insights

Court of Cassation: timeframe is crucial for downgrading (Il Sole 24 Ore, March 5, 2013, page 18)

Court of Cassation, with sentence no. 4301 of February 21, 2013, stated that the downgrading of the employee for organizational needs, if it is guaranteed in a prevailing way the performance of the ordinary duties.

8 mars 2013 • Insights

Court of Cassation: during the sickness leave the obligations are very strict (Il Sole 24 Ore, March 6, 2013, page 23)

Court of Cassation, labor section, with sentence no. 4559 of February 22, 2013, stated that the termination of an employee who, during the sickness leave, goes hunting with friends.

1 mars 2013 • Insights

VAT: THE TERMINATED EMPLOYEE IN 2013 IS INCLUDED IN THE “MINIMUM” (Il Sole 24 Ore, March 1, 2013, page 21)

An employee, after his/her dismissal in 2013, can register for VAT number to exercise an autonomous activity applying the system of the “super-minimum”.