DLP Insights

The Council of Ministers approved the State budget bill for the fiscal year 2017 and for the three-year period 2017-2019. A variety of changes have been introduced in terms of labour law. In particular, it was announced that the taxation limit for the productivity bonus with a 10% tax flat rate will increase in 2017 ....

The probation period associated with an employment agreement must not only be laid out in written form but must also contain specific instructions on the tasks that will be assigned to the employee during the probation period (specificity requirement), or it would be null and void. This is because the right of the employer to ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 20211 published on 7 October 2016, issued its ruling on the matter of dismissal for just cause notified to an employee for having participated in a “violent altercation with a colleague then followed by bodily harm”. In this case, the Court of Cassation confirmed the decision of the ....

The Supreme Court of Cassation with judgement No. 18507 filed on 21 September 2016, intervened again on the sensitive issue of denial of acceptance of the medical certificate attesting to an employee’s illness. In this case, an employee, unable to work for a declared pathology of acute sciatica, was caught by an investigative agency hired ....

The Court of Bergamo, with judgement No. 684 dated 14 September 2016, ruled unlawful to dismiss an employee for having published a photograph on Facebook depicting the employee bracing a firearm. According to the Court, in this case, the employee’s conduct, even if reprehensible, was not serious enough to “debase (…) the fiduciary relationship with ....