Case Law

With its judgement no. 21062 of 11 September 2017, the Court of Cassation has delivered an opinion on the issue of just cause for dismissal previously confirmed by the Court of first instance of Campobasso, later overturned by the Court of Appeal, which instead found the dismissal legitimate as the facts in question were proportionate ....

With its judgement no. 20976/2017, the Court of Cassation maintained that a provision signed by the parties at the time of the early termination of employment, whereby an employer agrees to pay a gross amount as an adjustment to the employee severance indemnity, in exchange for the employee waiving his/her right to any other disputes ....

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 ....