Case Law

  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 ....

With its judgement No. 273 filed on 21 September 2018, the Brescia Court of Appeal has ruled on a few aspects of the probation period. In the case at hand, a woman worker had filed a petition to the court of first instance seeking annulment of the dismissal enforced for failure to pass the probation ....

With its recent judgement no. 21965 dated 10 September 2018, the Court of Cassation once again ruled on the well-known controversial issue of the boundaries between the right to criticize and insubordination, upholding the decision of the trial court. The judgement at hand found the dismissal imposed on an employee, who had uttered words deemed ....