Case Law

The Labour Court of Lodi confirmed that it is legal to dismiss a worker due to the elimination of the department and tasks to which the worker was assigned, and impossibility to re-use the employee in other positions compatible with physical limitations reported by the designated Company Doctor and Public Health Service. In challenging the ....

The Cassation Court, with its ruling no. 6631/2015 of 1 April 2015, confirmed that an office environment which is too cold justified the workers refusal to work, and in such cases the workers do not lose their right to pay.

The Court of Cassation, with its decision no. 4991/2015, recognized the autonomy of the parties to set the duration of notice.

The Court of Cassation, with its decision no. 4757 of 10 March 2015, established that dismissal due to a worker being unfit to perform his job is unlawful if, on one hand, the dismissal is justified solely by a competent doctor and not also by a local health commission and, on the other, the employer has not proven the impossibility of assigning the employee to other tasks within the company.

According to the Cassation decision no. 4237/2015 the conduct of a worker, who during a period of leave due to injury worked at a third party performing a job substantially coinciding with his employment does not constitute just cause for dismissal.