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The Court of Cassation ruled on an employee’s appeal challenging his disciplinary dismissal for a traffic accident while driving a company vehicle, claiming unequal treatment with colleagues who had not suffered such a penalty in similar situations. The Supreme Court declared the appeal inadmissible and stated that for an unreasonable inequality assessment, the possible consideration ....

Chapter III of Legislative Decree 104/2022, implementing the European Transparency Directive 2019/1152, published in the “Official Gazette” 176 of 29 July and in force since 13 August, identified the minimum working conditions requirements. The first provision related to the probationary period maximum duration (Article 7), emphasises certain case law existing principles. The probationary period may ....

More comprehensive information. Reference to collective agreements is insufficient The legislative decree implementing the European Transparency Directive (no. 2019/1152), which must be transposed by 1 August, guarantees workers detailed knowledge of the employment conditions and minimum guarantees of predictability in the conduct of the relationship. Referring to the sector’s collective agreement, which is the case ....

Diversity and inclusion represent one of the main challenges law firms have been called to fight globally, on one hand to promote the undisputable values they represent and, on the other hand, to properly bring into the work environment of the law industry one of the most important (if not the most fundamental) principles which ....

On 1 July 2022, the 29 April 2022 Decree of the Ministry of Equal Opportunities was published in the Official Gazette, providing the parameters for obtaining the gender equality certification under Article 1, paragraph 147, of Law 234/2021. This provision delegated the Government to establish (a) the minimum parameters to obtain the gender equality certification, ....