{"id":26956,"date":"2016-03-28T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delucapartners.it\/news\/court-of-cassation-the-burden-of-proof-in-regard-to-the-suitability-of-employees-lies-with-the-employer-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T11:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:24:06","slug":"court-of-cassation-the-burden-of-proof-in-regard-to-the-suitability-of-employees-lies-with-the-employer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delucapartners.it\/fr\/news\/court-of-cassation-the-burden-of-proof-in-regard-to-the-suitability-of-employees-lies-with-the-employer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Court of Cassation: the burden of proof in regard to the suitability of employees lies with the employer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"justify\">With its judgment No. 4502 of 8 March 2016, the Court of Cassation declared it <strong>illegal<\/strong> to <strong>dismiss<\/strong> an employee on the grounds of that employee\u2019s <strong>refusal to perform new duties<\/strong> in a different company unit, when the employee in question complains that he\/she is <strong>physically unsuitable<\/strong> for such duties without, however, providing <strong>written evidence<\/strong> of such unsuitability. On this point, the Court of Cassation declared that in such cases, <strong>the employee is in no way obliged to provide written medical evidence of his\/her personal unsuitability for the new job<\/strong>, while <strong>it is the employer\u2019s responsibility<\/strong> \u2013 in compliance with the employer\u2019s own safety obligations (Article 2087 of the Italian Civil Code) and with the principles of correctness and good faith (Article 1375 of the Italian Civil Code) \u2013 <strong>to verify<\/strong> the employee\u2019s state of health, <strong>and subsequently<\/strong>, in the case of proven unsuitability for the new duties, to adopt possible <strong>alternative measures<\/strong> to the termination of employment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its judgment No. 4502 of 8 March 2016, the Court of Cassation declared it illegal to dismiss an employee on the grounds of that employee\u2019s refusal to perform new duties in a different company unit, when the employee in question complains that he\/she is physically unsuitable for such duties without, however, providing written evidence [&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":[168,175,198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-law","category-insights","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Court of Cassation: the burden of proof in regard to the suitability of employees lies with the employer - De Luca &amp; 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