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Law no. 199 dated 29 October 2016, which amends illegal intermediation and exploitation of work set forth by section 603-bis of the Italian Criminal Code was published in edition 257 of the Official Gazette on 3 November 2016, just five years after its introduction in the Criminal Code by Law no. 148/2011. The amendments went ....

The Draft Agreement for the renewal of the National Collective Labour Agreement for the private metalworking and mechanical engineering industry and installation of plants for the four-year period 2016-2019 was signed on 26 November 2016. The main novelties of the agreement include: (i) recognition, as from January 2017, of ex-post rather than ex-ante inflation year-over-year, ....

The newly created National Labour Inspectorate has assumed a position on the interpretation to give to the new clause 4 of the Workers’ Statute as regards the installation of GPS equipment on company cars. With circular no. 2 dated 7 November 2016, the Inspectorate accordingly amended the opinion given on this point by the Milan ....

With judgement dated 17 October 2017 the Labour Division of Milan Court dismissed the appeal filed by a former employee of one our Clients, who had taken legal action against the Company to obtain a ruling against her dismissal for just cause, with the consequences set forth by section 8 of Law no. 604/1966. With ....

With ruling no. 19557 dated 30 September 2016, the Supreme Court stated that in the case of a foreign company with a branch office in Italy – in order to determine whether or not the size requisite for application of section 18 of Law no. 300/1970 in the event of unfair dismissal applies – only ....