DLP Insights

On 25 May, 2018, the European Regulation on the protection of personal data will become fully operative. The Regulation has the primary goal of harmonizing the protection system in terms of privacy at the European level, focusing on the concept of accountability of the Data Controller (in this case, the individual company). This concept entails ....

Dopo un lungo inter parlamentare, durato quasi due anni, il 15 novembre 2017, la Camera dei Deputati ha approvato il disegno di legge n. 2208 che disciplina il cosiddetto whistleblowing. La necessità di adottare tale provvedimento era stata sollecitata, ormai da tempo, da...

The Court of Brescia, with its judgement dated 3 November 2017, has declared lawful a dismissal ordered to a female employee due to her failure to successfully overcome the probation period. In particular, the employee claimed that probation period agreement attached to the job contract was void due to the undefined tasks assigned, since she ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 27093 dated 15 November 2017 issued during a Plenary Sitting, intervened on the matter of travel allowance and related taxability and contributory regime. The Supreme Court, overruling its previous stance, consolidated as from judgement No. 396/2012, stated that “habitual travel allowances, payable to operators who, by contract, must ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 23503 dated 9 October 2017, has ruled valid a dismissal that took place “through reading of the written notification before the recipient (ed. in this specific case a manager) who made himself unavailable to receive a copy”. On the matter, the Court, recalling a few previous applicable cases, ....