Case Law

The Court of Appeal of Turin, with judgement No.26 filed on 11 January 2019 and published on 4 February, has partially accepted the appeal filed by 5 bike-delivery individuals (the so-called “riders”) of a well-known German food delivery company through a judgement of the Court of Turin (778/2018) that had failed to recognise the employment ....

  The Constitutional Court’s ruling starts to take effect in proceedings involving dismissals in the context of progressive-indemnity employment contracts [‘contratti di lavoro a tutele crescenti’ in Italian]. In the wake of Order no. 7016, issued by the Court of Bari on 11 October 2018, which applied the Constitutional Court’s ruling even before the grounds ....

With its order no. 32533, filed 14 December last, the Italian Court of Cassation established that employees, when subject to disciplinary procedures, have the right to access the records concerning them. The Court thus confirmed the full scope of the “right of access”, as governed by Article 7 of the Italian Privacy Code, which was ....

With its order no. 505 of 11 January 2019, the Italian Court of Cassation established the principle that workers have the right to be remunerated for the time it takes them to put on work clothes at the business premises, only if it is demonstrated that workers are obliged to use company dressing rooms and ....

The Labour Division of the Supreme Court of Cassation, with ruling no. 29377 dated 14 November 2018, deemed lawful, within the context of a collective dismissal – because of its objective nature – the criterion of choice represented by meeting the requirements to access the pension.   The Facts   An employee brought his case ....