DLP Insights

Categories: Case Law

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 19655 dated 10 August 2017, has confirmed the choice of an employer to dismiss one of its employees in order to increase management efficiency and business profit, even if lacking a [financial] crisis situation. In the case in hand, the employer decided to remove a department when a ....

Categories: Case Law

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 20130 dated 17 August 2017, has once again voiced its opinion on the proportionality of the disciplinary sanction against an employee with respect to the employee’s improper conduct pursuant to art. 2106 of the Italian Civil Code. In the case in hand, the dismissal impacted a member of ....

Categories: Do you know that

The date of 25 May 2018 is approaching and the European Personal Data Protection Regulation No.679, entered into force on 26 May 2016, will become fully operational. Therefore, all companies, if they have not yet done so, must promptly ensure to implement all the organizational and technical measure necessary to meet the regulation requirements, in ....

Categories: Legislation

On 14 August 2017, the “Annual law on market and competition” (Italian law No. 124) has been published on the Official Gazette and it will become effective on 29 August. There are many novelty aspects to the new law, approved after two years of preparation. Concerning the supplementary social security, the law on competition introduced ....

Categories: Practice

On 6 June 2017, as a follow up of what had been established in the Renewal Agreement dated 26 November 2016, Federmeccanica, Assistal, Fim, Fiom and Uilm, have adjusted the minimum contractual salary levels by [job position] level on the basis of the actual inflation rate. And not only that. In the agreement, also the ....