DLP Insights

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 ....

Categories: Do you know that

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 ....

Categories: Practice

Effective from 15 November 2017 employers that signed individual smart working agreements must comply with the mandatory notifications. In fact, art. 23 of the Law 81/2017 expressly establishes that the agreement on smart work be subjected to the “notifications detailed in article 9-bis of the Law Decree No. 510 dated 1 October 1996, converted, with ....

Categories: Case Law

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 ....