Case Law

The Court of Cassation with judgement No. 13455, filed on 30 June 2016, said the dismissal for prolonged absence imposed on a working mother for failing to comply with her employer’s order to resume service at a business unit located in a different municipality from the one where the woman worked at the time of ....

The Court of Appeal in Milan, in its ruling No. 439/2016, confirmed the principle that e-mail messages exchanged among employees as part of a mailing list, constitute private correspondence and therefore fall into the category of protected communications of a personal nature. According to the Court, the personality of the communication “lies in the predetermination ....

The Court of Cassation judgement No. 13676 of 5 July 2016, confirmed the principle of law already expressed by judgement No. 2550 of 10 February 2015, whereby for the purposes of the lawfulness of dismissal for just cause it is not necessary for the worker to have established expressly-prohibited conduct, but rather, it is sufficient ....

The Court of Cassation, with its judgement No. 13876 of 7 July 2016, said that any judge who – in the face of a petition from a claimant, which seeks, as a result of an unlawful dismissal, the sentencing of the employer to pay 6 times the final month’s actual global salary and, however, an ....

With its judgement no. 12347 dated 15 June 2016, the Court of Cassation held that the civil responsibility of the employer as set forth by article 2087 of the Italian Civil Code may only be asserted if the injury is caused by breach of the behavioural obligations set forth by law or skills relevant to ....