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 Appeals of Milan, with judgement No. 131/2017, in confirming the first-degree ruling, stated that in collective dismissals the employer does not have any repêchage obligations. This because the latter is an element that applies to dismissals for justified objective reasons for which the employer has the obligation to prove of having assessed ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 25649 dated 27 October 2017, ruled as unlawful, persecutory and abusive, the dismissal ordered to an employee “for organisational reasons”, due to the decision to subcontract out the IT system that the employee was in charge of handling. The employee, in bringing to court the dismissal, proved that ....