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The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 10280/2018, handled once again a case of dismissal ordered due to disparaging statements against the employer and its representatives through Facebook. In the case in question, the judges of the court (Court of Forlì and Court of Appeal of Bologna) had already deemed legitimate the dismissal ordered to ....

Pursuant to article 54, Legislative Decree no. 81/2015, employers are entitled to hire individuals already parties to project collaboration contracts and individuals registered for VAT purposes with whom self-employment relationships occurred provided that: (i) the individuals sign a settlement agreement in front of unions or labour authorities; (ii) in the twelve months following the hiring, ....

Through its circulars No. 6 and No. 7 of 2018, the Ispettorato nazionale del lavoro (namely, the national labour inspectorate or “INL”) has fixed the guidelines on the supply of labour, starting from the content of judgement No. 254/2017 with which the Constitutional Court ruled on the scope of application of article 29 of Legislative ....

The National Labour Inspectorate (“INL”), with its circular No. 5/2018, has given operational instructions on the problems concerning the installation and use of audiovisual aids and other control instruments. According to the INL, should any employees be filmed, the latter should take place as a rule accidentally and occasionally, but nothing prevents the direct shot ....

The Court of Cassation, with its judgement No. 6893 of 20 March 2018, declared the dismissal for cause notified to an employee to be lawful, as a result of having carried out another working activity during the days of leave for serious family reasons. In the case at issue, following the investigation ordered by the ....