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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 ....

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 ....

Background Opinion 12/2018 adopted on 25 September 2018 by the European Data Protection Board or “EDPB”, has recently been made public. The EDPB is the body that is mainly in charge of ensuring a uniform and consistent application of EU Regulation 679/2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal ....

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 ....