DLP Insights

On 26 September 2018, the Constitutional Court announced in a press release that it had declared art. 3 of Legislative Decree 23/15 (“Provisions governing open term increasing protections employment contracts implementing Law no. 183, 10 December 2014”) constitutionally unlawful in the part that is not amended by Legislative Decree 87/2018 (the “Dignity Decree”), converted into ....

  With its judgement no. 21562 filed on 3 September 2018 (decision in camera on 13 March 2018), the Court of Cassation examined the issue of breaks at work (in the case in question, the lunch break), with specific attention paid to the case of a part time worker.     The Facts An employee ....

With its order 25561 of 12 October 2018, the Court of Cassation handed down its ruling on the time limits by which the dismissal of an individual announced verbally can be challenged. In fact, the concept according to which this type of dismissal is not subject to the 60-day time limit but the limitation period ....

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 ....

On 19 September Legislative Decree No. 101/2018 entered into force (the “Decree”), laying down provisions to align the national regulatory framework to European Regulation 679/2016 on personal data protection (“GDPR”). The Decree gives the Data Protection Authority (the “Authority”) broad powers as well as significant duties, such as the review of some codes of professional ....