Case Law

The Court of Cassation, with judgment No. 50 dated 3 January 2017, intervened in the matter of dismissal for cause, clarifying that the timeliness of a disciplinary notice must be assessed with reference to the time when full knowledge of the fact is acquired, stating instead that for that purpose a mere suspicion is not ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgment No. 25201 dated 7 December 2016, issued a new judgement on the matter of dismissal for justified objective grounds. In particular, the Court of Cassation noted that Article 3 of Law 604/66 does not require that “adverse situations” or situations entailing “considerable extraordinary expenses” must be invoked as the ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgment No. 798 dated 13 January 2017, stated that the customer, whenever the work environment remains available to the latter, shall take all appropriate measures to protect the well-being and health of workers, including the contractor’s employees. In particular, according to the Court, these measures consist in (i) providing workers ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgment No. 160 dated 05 January 2017, issued a new judgement on mandatory repêchage in affiliated companies. In the case under review, an employee was dismissed for justified objective grounds by a subsidiary company whose 80% was owned by another one, without offering any repêchage possibility. Against the dismissal, the ....

The Court of Cassation, with judgment No. 284 dated 10 January 2017, intervened on the subject of dismissal on exceeding the maximum number of sickness absence days by primarily stating that the calculation must not consider the afternoons during which the worker is subjected to specific medical treatment, when the worker, on a part time ....