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The Ministry of Labour and Social Policies made available a “Voluntary Resignation“ app for resignations and consensual termination of the employment relationship. To access it, the concerned party must be a holder of the SPID, the Digital Identity Public System introduced on the Ministry’s service platform since last 19 May 2017. Authorized parties can use ....

The Data Protection Authority in charge of the protection of personal data, with order No. 479 dated 16 November 2017, deemed unlawful – and prohibited it – the processing of personal data of employees carried out by Poste Italiane S.p.A. through a system used for the management of the waiting times at the counter. In ....

The National Labour Inspectorate, with memorandum No. 290 dated 12 January 2018, published its opinion on the compatibility of training in an internship agreement with posting pursuant to article 30 of the Legislative Decree No. 276/2003. On this matter, the Labour Inspectorate does not see reasons against the possibility of making use of posting in ....

The Court of Cassation in its Plenary Sitting, with judgement No. 30985/2017 resolved a conflict of case-law regarding the penalty in the case of disciplinary dismissal affected by a late claim of unlawfulness. The controversy from which the judgement of the Plenary Sitting emerged, arose from an appeal filed at the court by an employee ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 29753/2017, ruled on the lawfulness of a dismissal issued by e-mail. In particular, the Court, through a literal interpretation of the provision referred to in Law 604/66, wished to clarify that “the requirement of written notice of dismissal must be deemed fulfilled, in the absence of specific procedures, ....