DLP Insights

The Court of Vasto (judgement 116/2022), has ruled that non-compliance, by the employer, of the commitment to reopen negotiations for the renewal of the company’s supplementary agreement, in breach of the conciliation agreement signed with a trade union organisation, constitutes anti-union behaviour. According to the Court, the conduct violated the principles of fairness and good ....

The Italian Data Protection Authority (“Garante”), in its 28 April 2022 injunction of 28 April 2022, imposed on a company in charge of managing the municipal waste collection service for the Municipality of Taranto (the “Municipality”), a € 200,000 fine for having entrusted processing personal data to a sub-processor without having requested and obtained specific ....

Following a report by a group of worker-members of a cooperative, the Data Protection Authority (“Garante”) established the unlawfulness of certain processing operations carried out through the publication of information on the assessment of their work, on the company notice board. As part of a “contest with prizes for worker-members, entitled “Guardiamoci in faccia…soci!” (Let’s ....

In ruling no. 13063 of 26 April 2022, the Court of Cassation extended the scope of application of the reinstatement protection to cases where the contested fact is found to exist and is not among the offences punished by the sector’s collective agreement with a conservative penalty. The Supreme Court extended the scope of the ....

With its order no. 17287 of 27 May 2022, the Court of Cassation considered the dismissal for just cause of the Workers’ Safety Representative (“RLS“) legitimate. The RLS had used union (daily) leave for more than three continuous months, for purposes other than those for which they had been provided and granted, or for personal ....