DLP Insights

Comments and tools from De Luca & Partners’ experience

Categories: Interviews

From the smart working extended also to the call center operators of American Express to favour the balance between private and professional life, to the interactive training platform that FCA Group made available to thousands of employees in 13 countries in the world to help promote skill building. From Rai Way’s creation of a new ....

Categories: Publications

Law no. 96 dated 9 August 2018, with amendments, converting Law Decree no. 87, dated 12 July 2018 (the so-called “Dignity Decree”), reintroduced in the Italian legislation the offence of fraudulent staff leasing. It is a type of offence that was originally included in Legislative Decree 276/2003 and later repealed by the Jobs Act. More ....

Categories: Publications

With a recent order (no. 24118 of 3 October 2018, the Court of Cassation has once again voiced its opinion on the lawfulness or unlawfulness of the refusal of a worker to comply with the employer’s request to perform lower rank duties than those to which he/she is entitled. The dispute started with the request ....

Categories: Case Law

With its order 24139/2018, the Court of Cassation clarified that in order to render the office of a company’s director gratuitous rather than remunerated, a lack of requests for payment is not sufficient, as a specific clause indicating the gratuitous nature of the director’s services must be included in the contract or the company’s articles ....

Categories: Do you know that

The transition period ended on 31 October 2018. It allowed for alignment to the new regulations governing fixed-term contracts, as introduced with Decree Law 197/2018, (the “Dignity Decree”), which was then converted into Law 96/2018. In particular, the Dignity Decree had provided that the new provisions would be applicable to renewals and extensions after 31 ....