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Categories: Legislation
During the meeting held on 18 October 2017, the Senate approved with amendments, draft law No. 2208/2016, containing provisions for the protection of whistleblowers reporting offences or irregularities of which they became aware within a public or private employment relationship (the so-called whistleblowing). Concerning the private sector, the draft law establishes amendments to Legislative Decree ....
Categories: Practice
The renewal of the National Collective Bargaining Agreement (CCNL) for small and medium sized metalworker and plant installation businesses signed on 4 July by the Unionmeccanica Confapi and the Fiom-Cgil, Fim-Cisl and Uilm-Uil trade unions has been ratified. The contract, whose official signature occurred on 21 October, was signed following the employees’ consultations occurred on ....
Categories: Practice
The Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, by decree dated 12 September, defined the criteria and methods of use of financial resources assigned to private sector employers that may have established in their company collective bargaining agreements provisions for balancing the professional and private life of employees. This is a tax relief issued to implement ....
Categories: Publications
“Industrial Relations Law across the World” came to be thanks to the work carried out by a dozen of professional experts from various countries, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the firm. The volume, published by Wolters Kluwer and coordinated by De Luca & Partners, analyses the current frameworks and trends that are ....
Categories: Case Law
The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 23846 filed on 11 October 2017, intervened on the qualification of a self-employment relationship as employment. In the specific case, the Court of Cassation stated that subjugation to managerial and disciplinary power cannot be an exclusive criterion to determine whether employment is or is not occurring. This is ....