Case Law

With its judgement no. 609/2017, the Court of Milan, acting as Labour Court, has ruled on the issue of the validity of a letter of transfer signed in acceptance thereof.  In the case at hand, a worker went to court seeking a declaration of invalidity of a transfer enjoined to him because, in his opinion, ....

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, with its judgement no. 61496/08, lodged on 5 September 2017 in the case of Barbulescu vs Romania, condemned Romania because the monitoring by a company of an employee, later dismissed for making a personal use of the company email messaging service, failed to strike a ....

With its judgement no. 1091/2017, the Court of Milan has ruled again on the expiry of the limitation period of wage claims, in light of the modifications introduced by Law no. 92/2012 (so-called Fornero Law) to Article 18, Workers’ Charter. In particular, the judgement at hand reiterated that following the entry into force of the ....

The Court of Lodi, with judgement No. 99 filed on 6 July 2017, verified that the statute of limitations applied to a credit on a tax payment notice. Specifically, a company that had filed a written appeal registered in February 2017 and duly notified to INAIL, went to Court so as it could declare the ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgement No. 19103 dated 1 August 2017, confirmed the unlawfulness of disciplinary dismissal ordered to an employee responsible for having provided confidential information about the company for which she worked, also expressing libellous opinions on it and its employees, to a former colleague then hired by a competitor company. The ....