DLP Insights

With the provision of Article 42, paragraph 2, of Decree Law no. 18 of March 17, 2020 (converted, with amendments, by Law no. 27 of April 24, 2020), now known as the “Cura Italia” Decree, it has been definitively sanctioned the assimilation of contagion at work from COVID 19 to an accident at the workplace. ....

Considerations at the time of COVID-19: does the current emergency integrate the hypothesis of force majeure for the suspension of remuneration? Does the current COVID-19 spread pandemic situation integrate the hypothesis of force majeure? In the light of the above questions, it has been deemed appropriate to make some brief reflections on the impact that ....

The emergency measures issued by the Government to manage the pandemic emergency of Covid-19 have attributed, to all intents and purposes, to remote-working also the function of a contagion containment measure and consequently a means to protect workers’ health. Remote-working, in fact, is a way of carrying out work activities that, while allowing them to ....

In order to facilitate the activity of the Prefects at a decisive moment such as that of the so-called Phase 2, the National Labour Inspectorate (“INL”), on 20 April 2020, published note no. 149 (“Note INL no. 149”), with which it provides a real operating guide for its territorial offices, to contribute, at the request ....

The National Labour Inspectorate (“INL”) issued two notes, one shortly after the other, used to provide the first clarifications concerning the inspection procedures for worksites in light of the pertinent guidelines, shared in the “Joint Protocol on regulation of measures for contrasting and containing the spread of the Covid-19 virus” (the “Protocol”) signed by the ....