DLP Insights

On 28 December 2023, Italy joined the European Framework Agreement called “Framework Agreement on the application of Article 16 (1) of Regulation (EC) No. 883/2004 in cases of habitual cross-border Telework”.   Article 1 of the Framework Agreement defines “cross-border telework” as an activity that a worker carries out remotely in one or more Member States ....

Provisional agreement on corporate sustainability due diligence directive: text still to be examined by the Legal Affairs Committee and approved by the European Parliament sitting as a whole and by the European Council. On 14 December 2023, the European Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on the text of the “Corporate sustainability ....

There is no end to new initiatives on the subject of whistleblowing. While the provisions of Italian Legislative Decree no. 24 of 10 March 2023 are already in force for companies with 250 employees or more, for companies employing 50 to 249 employees this has only been the case since 17 December 2023, requiring them ....

Historically, cross-border work between Italy and Switzerland has been regulated by the Agreement signed in Rome in 1974 (‘1974 Rome Agreement’)and, also, by the Convention against double taxation of 1976 (the ‘1976 Convention’), still in force between the two countries. These agreements establish that the wages, salaries and other elements forming part of the remuneration ....

In our legal system, the issue of contracting-out and agency work has always been the focus of attention by the legislator in the field of employment law. Not surprisingly, one of the first employment laws to accompany the Italian Civil Code was Italian Law no. 1369 of 1960, which enshrined the prohibition of intermediation and ....