DLP Insights

The Ministry of Labour and Social Policies made available a “Voluntary Resignation“ app for resignations and consensual termination of the employment relationship. To access it, the concerned party must be a holder of the SPID, the Digital Identity Public System introduced on the Ministry’s service platform since last 19 May 2017. Authorized parties can use ....

The parties may include in the part-time employment agreement, according to article 6 of Legislative Decree 81/2015, flexible clauses related to (i) the change in the scheduled arrangement of the service or (ii) the increase in its duration. The worker is entitled to two business-day notice, unless otherwise agreed by the parties. If the flexible ....

The House Assembly, on 15 November 2017, approved a bill that includes rules for the protection of employees or contractors who disclose illegal actions of which they become aware during the work relationship (the so-called whistleblowing). In the specific case, the whistleblowing employee cannot be punished, dismissed, demoted or subjected to any other retaliatory or ....

Dismissal due to personnel reduction or dismissal for justified objective reasons exercised against a compulsorily employed worker, pursuant to Art. 10, paragraph 4, of Law No. 68/1999, can be voided if, at termination of the employment relationship, the mandatory quota pertaining to the remaining employed workforce is not met.

The case law is united in believing that employers have the right to hire a private investigator to make sure that the leaves referred to in Law no. 104/92 are not improperly used by the employees. In fact, these leaves cannot be used to meet personal needs (such as dance nights or vacations), since this ....