DLP Insights

Categories: Case Law

The Court of Cassation, with sentence No. 17093/2011, declared that the judge, on the one hand, has to interpret the flexibility that the provision concerning the dismissal for “justified subjective reason” offered him (as well as for “just cause”) in order to adapt it to a social context which develops continuously; on the other hand, however, the judge’s evaluation of the future reliability of the employee, on which the decision to deny the lawfulness of the dismissal is based, cannot digress in the employer’s sentence of organizational choices that otherwise he would not have taken

Categories: Legislation

Article 18, paragraph 2, Law By Decree No. 98/2011, repealed paragraph 10-bis of Article 19, Law By Decree No. 185/2008 which provided for the extension of the mobility allowance also to the employees not entitled to the ordinary treatments ex Article 7, Law No. 223/1991.

Categories: Case Law

Court of Cassation, with sentence no. 16192/2011, stated that oral quarrel among colleagues including “some push and jerk” does not justify a disciplinary dismissal of both “rivals”.

Categories: Legislation

The Council of Ministers approved the Decree of the President of the Republic of July 28th, 2011 which introduces measures in order to enlarge the health and safety protection of employees who perform the working activity in workplaces entailing risks concerning the evolvement of highly injurious substances or of gases, such as silos, cisterns, wells (so called “confined environments”).

Categories: Legislation

Legislative Decree July 7, 2011, No 121, named "Implementation of Directive 2008/99/EC on the criminal protection of the environment, and Directive 2009/123/EC amending Directive 2005/35/EC on ship-source pollution and introduction of penalties for violations", has been published in the Official Gazette, General Series No 177, on August 1, 2011.