DLP Insights

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 ....

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 ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 23503 dated 9 October 2017, has ruled valid a dismissal that took place “through reading of the written notification before the recipient (ed. in this specific case a manager) who made himself unavailable to receive a copy”. On the matter, the Court, recalling a few previous applicable cases, ....

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 ....