DLP Insights

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 ....

The date of 25 May 2018 is approaching and the European Personal Data Protection Regulation No.679, entered into force on 26 May 2016, will become fully operational. Therefore, all companies, if they have not yet done so, must promptly ensure to implement all the organizational and technical measure necessary to meet the regulation requirements, in ....