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A serious threat made by an employee against his immediate superior constitutes a breach of the duties of cooperation, loyalty and subordination and sufficient grounds for dismissal for just cause. This is the principle of law confirmed on 3 December in the Court of Cassation judgement No. 31155/2018. The case analysed arose from the disciplinary ....

At a time of great change, we wished to reward the companies that implemented innovative projects in the field of human resources, with the hope of contributing to the dissemination and emulation of best practices. This is how Vittorio De Luca, Managing Partner of De Luca & Partners, explained the spirit of the Excellence & ....

Dismissal ordered due to elapsing of the grace period must be ordered without delay. This was the ruling of the Court of Cassation with judgement no. 29402 dated 15 November 2018. The legal proceedings originated from the legal action brought forth after a dismissal ordered for elapsing of the sick leave grace period established by ....

By means of judgment No. 25740 of 15 October 2018, the Court of Cassation has established the important principle that commission accrued by a “coordinator” agent, meaning an agent whose commission is based on the commission earned by the sales network he/she coordinates, should not to be taken into account in the calculation of the ....

In the operative part of judgment 194/2018 issued on 8 November 2018, the Constitutional Court has ruled that art. 3, paragraph 1, of Legislative Decree 23/2015 (governing open-ended employment contracts with increasing protections) is constitutionally unlawful when it links the amount of severance indemnity (for that part not modified by the Dignity Decree) payable to ....