Publications

With order 16382/2021, the Court of Cassation once again ruled on the critical issues connected with the relationship between wage subsidies anddaily sickness benefits. In accordance with well-established case law, the Court pointed out that, where the ordinary lay-off scheme concerns a case of suspension of production and not merely a reduction in working hours, ....

With sentence 15763 of 7 June 2021, the Court of Cassation dealt once again with the issue of the time spent by employees to put on or take off their uniform. In the case in question, the Court of Appeal of Rome, reforming the first instance sentence, rejected the request made by the employees of ....

With the recent ruling no. 15118 of 31 May 2021, the Court of Cassation ruled that the initiation of multiple individual dismissal procedures for objective justified reasons under Article 7 of Law 604/66 does not count when calculating the minimum number of five dismissals required to open collective dismissal procedures. The ruling stems from the ....

In its judgment 15465 of 3 June 2021, the Employment Chambers of the Court of Cassation ruled once again on the peculiarities of dismissal for just cause imposed on an employee carrying out other work during sick leave. In particular, a disciplinary dismissal was ordered against a civil servant who, following a personal accident and ....

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the strict restrictions on the possibility of concluding fixed-term contracts have been suspended for the obvious purpose of favouring employment (albeit fixed-term), which was severely damaged by the economic fallout of the epidemic. Indeed, as early as with the law converting Decree Law no. 18/2020 (so-called  Cura Italia), the ....