Publications

The discipline of fixed-term employment relationships has undergone important amendments by the emergency legislation which has been the subject, and still is, of a wide debate by doctrine who did not spare themselves in identifying the countless critical profiles and contradictory. The contribution of the Vittorio De Luca and Antonella Iacobellis first offers an high-level ....

The current emergency due to the spread of Covid-19 led the Italian Government to ban dismissals for objective justified reason and suspend layoff proceedings. Initially introduced with the Cure Italy Decree, it was later extended with additional Government conditions. The most recent, art. 12, par. 11, of Decree Law 137/2020 (“Ristori Decree”) extended it until ....

An employment emergency measure package added to Italian Decree Law 137/2020 approved by the Council of Ministers on 28 October 2020, includes a brief extension of the emergency wages guarantee fund (both ordinary and derogatory) and wage integration fund (FIS) equal to six weeks that can be used from 16 November 2020 until 31 January ....

The Spanish Council of Ministers has approved a Royal Decree on remote working “Real Decreto-Ley 28/2020.” These are a set of provisions aimed at balancing employee and employer needs. It was published in the Boe – the equivalent of the Italian Official Gazette, on 23 September 2020. There are eight points of interest within the ....

Supreme Court no. 13613/2020 stated that: “The right of employee to paid annual leave must be considered a fundamental principle of EU social law, which cannot be derogated from and whose implementation by the competent national authorities can only be carried out within the limits explicitly indicated by Directive 2003/88. It is not compatible with ....