Case Law

In its judgment No. 27656 of 30 October 2018, the Court of Cassation has again addressed the matter of employees who do other work whilst on sick leave. The Facts An employee who was involved in an accident in the workplace and was prescribed a rest period of 15 days using medical supports and ice ....

  With its judgement no. 21562 filed on 3 September 2018 (decision in camera on 13 March 2018), the Court of Cassation examined the issue of breaks at work (in the case in question, the lunch break), with specific attention paid to the case of a part time worker.     The Facts An employee ....

With its order 25561 of 12 October 2018, the Court of Cassation handed down its ruling on the time limits by which the dismissal of an individual announced verbally can be challenged. In fact, the concept according to which this type of dismissal is not subject to the 60-day time limit but the limitation period ....

With its order 24139/2018, the Court of Cassation clarified that in order to render the office of a company’s director gratuitous rather than remunerated, a lack of requests for payment is not sufficient, as a specific clause indicating the gratuitous nature of the director’s services must be included in the contract or the company’s articles ....

On 26 September 2018, the Constitutional Court announced in a press release that it had declared art. 3 of Legislative Decree 23/15 (“Provisions governing open term increasing protections employment contracts implementing Law no. 183, 10 December 2014”) constitutionally unlawful in the part that is not amended by Legislative Decree 87/2018 (the “Dignity Decree”), converted into ....