Case Law

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 19732 dated 25 July 2018, confirmed that in the case of dismissal for justified objective reasons, the selection of the employee, or employees, to be dismissed is not fully at the discretion of the employer. In fact, it is limited, in addition by the prohibition to discriminate, by ....

With its judgment No. 14527 of 6 June 2018, the Court of Cassation has quashed the decision of the Court of Appeal having territorial jurisdiction which, by reversing the decision of the first instance judge, had declared the unlawfulness of the dismissal for cause served on five employees who had staged the suicide and the ....

With its order No. 14242/2018, the Court of Cassation was requested to rule on the existence of non-patrimonial damage in case of unlawful data processing. In particular, the dispute under the close examination of Court of Cassation concerned the order to transfer a Customs Agency employee after commencement of an investigation by the Public Prosecutor’s ....

With its judgment No. 15094 of 11 June 2018, the Court of Cassation has stated that the controls carried out through an investigation agency (or security guards) may in no way concern the fulfilment or the breach of the contractual obligation, but must only limit themselves at ascertaining the carrying out of unlawful acts carried ....

With its judgment No. 13266 of 28 May 2018, the Court of Cassation has declared the lawfulness of a disciplinary dismissal served on an employee for having used the company computer during working time for non-working purposes. In the case at issue, the employer had commenced a retrospective investigation – following the reporting of the ....