DLP Insights

The sustainable approach to investments is increasingly the benchmark for virtuous entrepreneurs, who place sustainability issues at the center of their entrepreneurial decisions. This is also increasingly the case in relation to the management of their own staff. An indication of this has also come from the Excellence & Innovation HR Award, the prize for ....

With order no. 10043 of 10 April 2019, the Italian Court of Cassation again ruled on the requirements that need to be met for a series of actions taken by an employer to constitute mobbing, in the case reported by a manager who had declared himself to have been the victim of behaviour presented as ....

A Directive containing the EU’s new whistleblowing rules was adopted by the European Parliament on 16 April 2019 in Strasbourg, with 591 votes in favour, 29 against and 33 abstentions.   The rules in question ensure greater safeguards for people who blow the whistle (whistleblowers) on wrongdoings in the workplace, in areas like “public contracts”, ....

An announcement published on the website of the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) confirms that, in March 2019, the Polish data protection authority (UODO) imposed its first fine on a Swedish company pursuant to the data personal protection Regulation (EU) 2016/697 (“GDPR”), ordering it pay a penalty of 220,000 euro. The Swedish company had processed ....

By way of order No. 9006 of 1 April 2019, the Court of Cassation has ruled that the minutes of a settlement agreement signed with the involvement of trade unions is actionable by the worker only in the event of vitiated consent or lack of assistance by the trade union representative. The court, on the ....