Publications

Faced with the pandemic emergency in progress, the Legislator and the Government have introduced rules aimed at safeguarding jobs, allowing the use of wage supplements and imposing a ban on dismissal for justified objective reasons pursuant to Article 3 L. n. 604/1966 and collective dismissal pursuant to Law no. 223/1991, except for the following hypotheses: ....

Under order no. 8265/2020, the Court of Cassation defined the representative requirements that a second-level company agreement must contain to be indisputable to third parties, including INPS (National Institute for Social Security). The order disallowed contribution reduction on performance bonuses based on a company agreement signed annually by the employer and a workers’ representative. Ruling ....

The Court of Cassation has ruled on the matter of the fictitious secondment (“posting”) of employees. Sanctions shall be imposed on any undertaking seconding (“posting”) its own employees by way of fictitious secondment (“posting”). The sanctions provided for under the Biagi Law as to a lawful and correct application of the secondment (“posting”) institution must ....

On September 15, 2020, the trade union associations ASSODELIVERY and UGL-RIDER signed the first National Collective Bargaining Agreement (“NCBA”) governing the relationship between Bike Delivery Riders so called “Riders” and their companies. The agreement, called “National Collective Bargaining Agreement for governing the delivery of goods on behalf of third parties, carried out by self-employed workers, ....

Bill C. 788 was submitted to the Chamber of Deputies in July 2018. Its aim is to define procedures to measure the actual representation of worker unions (“OOSS”) and identify parameters to measure employer organisation representation. The former is based on the average of membership and electoral figures. Membership is calculated by INPS from notices ....