DLP Insights

Court of Cassation, with sentence no. 1411 of January 31, 2012, restated that, in the case an employee obtains the conversion of a fixed term employment contract into an open-ended one, he/she is not entitled anymore to receive an amount by way of damages equal to the wages he/she should have received in the period included between the termination of the relationship and the sentence.

On February 24th, 2012, the Council of Ministers approved a Legislative Decree which identifies three cases in which the supplied work without stating the relevant reason is allowed.

INAIL, with note No. 1100/2012, specified that the facilitated system introduced by the Legislative Decree No. 167/2011 (so called “Consolidated Act on Apprenticeship”) for the hiring of employees enrolled in the lists of mobility with apprenticeship is not applicable to the insurance rates, but only for social security contribution purposes.

Court of Cassation, with sentence no. 2419/2012, stated that employer who has intention to exercise of the contributive exemption on kilometers reimbursements to the employee is not obliged to give an analytical proof throughout a monthly sheet or other similar document.

Court of Appeal of Rome, with sentence no. 267/2012, stated that employees who obtain the conversion of a fixed-term contract into an open-ended term contract are entitled to two kind of damages: indemnity in lieu of notice period set by the so called “Collegato Lavoro” and a further damage, i.e. an amount equal to the salary the employee would have accrued from the date of the filing of the judicial appeal to that of the sentence.