DLP Insights

Categories: Publications

Legislative Decree No. 104 of June 27, 2022 implementing EU Directive No. 2019/1152 on transparent and predictable working conditions in the territory of the European Union was published in the Official Gazette on July 29, 2022. The decree adds additional information obligations to those hitherto provided for by Legislative Decree No. 152/1997, providing for an ....

Categories: Publications

By an order of 25 April 2022, the Court of Bologna held that the early termination by the employer, effective immediately, of the financial aspects of an enterprise bargaining agreement is anti-union behaviour. The contract in question was valid from 1 June 2019 to 31 March 2023 and was to be renewed year by year, ....

Categories: Legislation

The Court of Cassation,  IV criminal section, in its ruling no. 23809 of 21 June 2022, clarified the definition of “worker” for workplace health and safety purposes. Facts of the case The case arose from the accident that occurred to an “illegal” worker who fell from the provided ladder while he was trying to remove ....

Categories: Case Law

The assessment notice issued by the Labour Inspectorate, if not opposed or confirmed by the Regional Committee, is an administrative act, which can become an enforcement order without the assessment being made final, which can be challenged. With order no. 23744 of 29/07/2022, the Court of Cassation confirmed this, and stated that the warning notice ....

Categories: Case Law

In ruling no. 26246 of 6 September 2022, the Court of Cassation resolved the legal contrast about the statute of limitations start date for employee claims in companies with more than 15 employees, clarifying that, after Law no. 92/2012 ( “Fornero Reform”), the statute of limitations no longer starts during the employment relationship. Facts of ....