DLP Insights

Following what was announced to the social partners at the meeting held on 18 November 2020, the Ministry of Labour issued the following 19 November Circular no. 17 explaining the regulations governing digital platforms’ delivery cyclists (riders). The Ministry outlined the essential features of Legislative Decree of 15 June 2015, no. 81, as amended and ....

The Constitutional Court, with its ruling no. 254 filed on 26 November 2020, declared inadmissible the constitutional legitimacy issues raised by the Naples Court of Appeal on the Jobs Act provisions concerning collective redundancies which violated the selection criteria. the Board considered the judge’s reasoning on the relevance insufficient and any request for corrective action ....

The Supreme Court of Cassation, with its ruling no. 23385 of 23 October 2020, stated that regarding waivers and settlements, the employee’s declaration may be considered as a waiver if the settlement agreement was issued with awareness of determined or objectively determinable rights and with a conscious intent to waive or settle them. Facts of ....

Decree Law no. 149/2020 ( “Ristori-bis Decree”), the Italian legislation has implemented Directive 2020/739 of 3 June last (the “Directive“). The latter has amended Annex III of Directive 2000/54/EC on the protection of workers from health risks and safety arising, or likely to arise, from exposure during normal work to biological agents identified in the ....

The discipline of fixed-term employment relationships has undergone important amendments by the emergency legislation which has been the subject, and still is, of a wide debate by doctrine who did not spare themselves in identifying the countless critical profiles and contradictory. The contribution of the Vittorio De Luca and Antonella Iacobellis first offers an high-level ....