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Categories: Publications | Tag: labour law, Collective dismissal

Under the law that regulates dismissals in Italy, specific selection criteria must be applied in identifying the relevant employees, throughout the entire corporate group. However, according to well-established case-law, recently confirmed by the Court of Cassation, Labour Division, judgment No. 3511 of 6 February 2023, at certain conditions, an employer may limit the pool of ....

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Categories: Press review | Tag: Demotion, Court of Cassation, Corte di Cassazione, Demansionamento

The applicability of an exemption regime requires the taxpayer to provide rigorous proof of fulfilment of all factual prerequisites giving rise to compensatory damages. The Court of Cassation, Tax Division, by Order No 8615 of 27 March 2023 returned to examine the complex subject of the taxation regime applicable to the compensation due in connection ....

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Categories: Publications | Tag: GDPR, Whistleblowing

Protection also extends to shareholders, apprentices, the self-employed, and consultants. Wide-ranging whistleblowing protection. In addition to their current employees and collaborators, private sector companies must also provide protection to employed workers, apprentices, self-employed workers, freelancers and consultants, volunteers and trainees (including unpaid ones), shareholders, those exercising administrative, management, control, supervisory or representative functions (including if ....

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Categories: Publications | Tag: Court of Cassation, discrimination, Corte di Cassazione, discriminazione

The Court of Cassation, in its recent Order No 3361 of 3 February 2023, reiterated its consistent approach concerning the allocation of the burden of proof in anti-discrimination judgments, specifying that the allocation criteria do not follow the ordinary criteria of Article 2729 of the Italian Civil Code, but rather the special ones that establish ....

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Categories: Press review | Tag: Dismissal for just cause, Employment & Labour Law

With Order No 7029, of 9 March 2023, the Italian Court of Cassation, reversing the conclusions reached by the Court of Appeal of Bologna, deemed legitimate since justified by a just cause the dismissal of a worker who, derisorily, had turned against a colleague telling her in dialectal form ‘but why did you get pregnant ....

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