Categories: Case Law
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 ....
Categories: Case Law
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 ....
Categories: Case Law
The Court of Cassation, with judgement 26682/2017, ruled as lawful the disciplinary dismissal ordered to an employee who accused of ineptitude and incompetence employees and top management of the company using offending words in several messages sent through his corporate email account. In the specific case, the employee, in bringing to Court the employer’s dismissal, ....
Categories: Case Law
The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 27206/2017, has declared lawful the decision of a local health unit (ASL) to impose to one of its managers, close to retirement due to reaching the pensionable age, the use of vacation leave and non-used paid leaves, as established by the contractual obligations, also in order to prevent ....
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The House Assembly, on 15 November 2017, approved a bill that includes rules for the protection of employees or contractors who disclose illegal actions of which they become aware during the work relationship (the so-called whistleblowing). In the specific case, the whistleblowing employee cannot be punished, dismissed, demoted or subjected to any other retaliatory or ....
