DLP Insights

D.L. 23/2020 was published in the Official Gazette on 8 April. It contains credit and tax support measures for Italian companies (“Liquidity Decree”). The measures include government guarantees on loans from banks where companies have signed loan agreements. The guarantee is provided by a company 100% controlled by the Ministry of Economy and Finance (“SACE ....

The tools used by the remote worker (e.g. laptops and smartphones) to perform their work allow a constant and continuous availability and connection, not only potential but in fact, constant and continuous. And this would risk to compromise the balance between professional and private life which is one of the requirements of remote work. The ....

With the provision of Article 42, paragraph 2, of Decree Law no. 18 of March 17, 2020 (converted, with amendments, by Law no. 27 of April 24, 2020), now known as the “Cura Italia” Decree, it has been definitively sanctioned the assimilation of contagion at work from COVID 19 to an accident at the workplace. ....

Considerations at the time of COVID-19: does the current emergency integrate the hypothesis of force majeure for the suspension of remuneration? Does the current COVID-19 spread pandemic situation integrate the hypothesis of force majeure? In the light of the above questions, it has been deemed appropriate to make some brief reflections on the impact that ....

The emergency measures issued by the Government to manage the pandemic emergency of Covid-19 have attributed, to all intents and purposes, to remote-working also the function of a contagion containment measure and consequently a means to protect workers’ health. Remote-working, in fact, is a way of carrying out work activities that, while allowing them to ....