Case Law

By judgment no. 6265, published on 31 March 2016, the Court of Cassation has sanctioned the principle whereby an employee refusing to transfer may be considered as resigning from employment. In the case in question, the worker had contested the legitimacy of the employer’s order to transfer to another production unit, and refused to comply. ....

By judgment no. 7313 published on 13 April 2016, the Court of Cassation has ruled that, in order to assess the existence of an accident on the way to and from work in case of use of a bicycle, it is necessary to keep into account not only the distance between home and workplace but ....

With its judgment No. 2116/2016, the Court of Cassation reiterated that no mobbing shall be deemed to have occurred in the absence of a specific vexatious plan aimed at the gradual personal and professional demolition of the employee in question. The employer must safeguard the physical well-being and moral character of employees. In this sense, ....

With its judgment No. 4695 of 10 March 2016, the Court of Cassation declared as unlawful the dismissal for just cause of an employee who (i) was not present for the home medical visit during the period of illness in question, and (ii) failed to have a medical examination at the doctor’s surgery the following ....

With its judgment No. 3306 of 19 February 2016, the Court of Cassation confirmed the legal principle already stated in the Court’s decision No. 22540 of 2 October 2013, in virtue of which “the employee’s action aimed at recognition of rights connected to previous employment, cannot be precluded by generic, all-inclusive forms of waiver, in ....