DLP Insights

Too much protection and rigid obligations. The Dignity Decree is an insidious and difficult law to apply. In the opinion of attorney Vittorio De Luca, Managing Partner of the Law Firm De Luca & Partners, specialised in labour law, “now more than ever, businesses must pay significant attention to the reasons that legitimate the use ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 17514 dated 4 July 2018, deemed justified the disciplinary dismissal ordered to a bus driver of a private rental company who, during a long period of absence from work for an ongoing injury, was found to be working for a car parking facility. On the same date, on ....

The “battle” on the type of employment relationship of the so-called riders in the age of the gig economy continues. A few months after the judgement issued by the Court of Turin ruling that the six riders of Foodora could not be deemed employees of the company, the Court of Milan ruled on 4 July ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgement dated 25 June 2018 No. 16702, issued a new ruling on the dismissal for justified objective reasons and related penalty consequences. In particular, the Court of Cassation noted that the negative trend of a company represents a factual requirement that the employer must necessarily prove and the judge accept. ....

Art. 1, paragraph 910 of Law No. 205/2017 (the so-called Budget Law 2018) established that, effective from July 1, 2018, employers and private clients must pay to employees their remuneration, as well as any advance, through a bank or post office using one of the following methods of payment: a) wire transfer on the current ....