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The Data Protection Authority, on 15 December 2017, published on its official website a series of clarifications regarding the appointment and duties of the Data Protection Officer (“DPO”). More specifically, the Data Protection Officer must have specific skills, preferably, whenever appointed internally, be a Manager or a high ranking professional to be appointed with a ....

Effective from 15 November 2017 employers that signed individual smart working agreements must comply with the mandatory notifications. In fact, art. 23 of the Law 81/2017 expressly establishes that the agreement on smart work be subjected to the “notifications detailed in article 9-bis of the Law Decree No. 510 dated 1 October 1996, converted, with ....

The renewal of the National Collective Bargaining Agreement (CCNL) for small and medium sized metalworker and plant installation businesses signed on 4 July by the Unionmeccanica Confapi and the Fiom-Cgil, Fim-Cisl and Uilm-Uil trade unions has been ratified. The contract, whose official signature occurred on 21 October, was signed following the employees’ consultations occurred on ....

The Ministry of Labour and Social Policies, by decree dated 12 September, defined the criteria and methods of use of financial resources assigned to private sector employers that may have established in their company collective bargaining agreements provisions for balancing the professional and private life of employees. This is a tax relief issued to implement ....

The Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, which will become fully effective on 25 May 2018, has introduced among others the figure of Data Protection Officer (DPO). In consideration of the first requests for clarifications on their appointment, the Data Protection Authority, in its Newsletter no. 432 of 15 September 2017, has provided specific indications. In particular, ....