DLP Insights

The adoption of a policy regulating the use of IT tools (e.g. Internet, email, tablets and smart phones) made available to the employees in accordance with the provisions of the privacy regulations, allows the employer to use the data collected through such tools for all purposes pertaining to the employment relationship, including the disciplinary ones.

An employer who dismisses an employee enjoying increasing protections can make a settlement offer at the time of the administrative proceedings or when dealings with trade unions and authorities within 60 days from dismissal, for the sole purpose of avoiding lawsuits. The settlement offer would be in the amount of one month’s salary as per ....

As from 1 January 2017 ordinary redundancy has ceased to exist, as set forth by section 2, paragraph 71 of Law no. 92/2012 (the so-called Fornero Law). This means that as from 1 January 2017, the redundancy procedure has become a collective dismissal procedure, while the trade-union consultation procedure has remained unchanged, and a dismissal ....

Ministerial Decree dated 10 August 2016, which defines the operative standards and rules for the electronic transmission of notices from foreign companies who second workers in Italy, went into force on 27 October 2016. More specifically, within 24 hours from the day before the starting date of the secondment, the foreign company must e-mail the ....

The probation period associated with an employment agreement must not only be laid out in written form but must also contain specific instructions on the tasks that will be assigned to the employee during the probation period (specificity requirement), or it would be null and void. This is because the right of the employer to ....