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The Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, which will become fully effective on 25 May 2018, has introduced among others the figure of Data Protection Officer (DPO). In consideration of the first requests for clarifications on their appointment, the Data Protection Authority, in its Newsletter no. 432 of 15 September 2017, has provided specific indications. In particular, ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 19103 dated 1 August 2017, confirmed the unlawfulness of disciplinary dismissal ordered to an employee responsible for having provided confidential information about the company for which she worked, also expressing libellous opinions on it and its employees, to a former colleague then hired by a competitor company. The ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 14456 dated 9 June 2017, has intervened again on the distinction between discriminatory dismissal and retaliatory dismissal. The Court, intervening on the matter detailed in judgement No. 6575 dated 5 April 2016 issued by the Court itself, clarified that discriminatory dismissal is objective since it is based on ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 19725 dated 8 August 2017, confirmed the principle according to which in the presence of mixed tasks, the analysis aimed at verifying if the employee has the right to achieve higher qualification respect to the one assigned must be performed not on the basis of a simple quantitative ....

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 ....