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Legislative Decree 151/2015, implementing the Jobs Act in terms of rationalisation and simplification of requirements, has repealed, effective as of 1 January 2017, paragraph 2, of article 3 of Law 68/1999. Therefore, starting on 1 January 2017, employers who employ more than 15 to 35 employees will have the obligation of hiring disabled workers as ....

With the new article 4 of Law 300/1970, rewritten by the Jobs Act, the obligation to adequately inform workers on the procedures for using equipment from which remote control of work activities and work instruments may occur as well as the procedures for performing controls becomes the requirement for being able to use information collected ....

Pursuant to article 2 of Legislative Decree 81/2015 enacted 25 June 2015, as of 1 January 2016, collaborations which are organised by others, with the exception of certain exclusions, shall be considered regular employment. Starting on the same date, article 54 of Legislative Decree 81/2015 offers customers/employers the possibility of stabilising workers who are already ....

With its ruling the Milan Court of Appeals, in confirming the decision of the lower court judges considered the application of art. 2119 of the Civil Code to independent contractors to be correct. This is due to the general scope of the principle it is based on, according to which the immediate withdrawal from the ....

With its ruling no. 23609 of 18 November 2015, the Court of Cassation returned to the subject of the selection criteria followed by the employer at the outcome of the personnel layoff procedure. Specifically, the Court reiterated that the employer, when he defines the selection criteria as per article 5 of Law 223/1991 in the ....