DLP Insights

With sentence no. 15211 dated 22 July 2016, the Court of Cassation upheld the decision of the lower courts, affirming that where a workplace coincides with the home of the employee, for the purposes of ascertaining if the size of the workplace is such as to require reinstatement of the worker, if unfairly dismissed, pursuant ....

With sentence no. 15435 dated 26 July 2016, the Court of Cassation affirmed the principle according to which the evidence of discrimination provided by an employee may be circumstantial or based on presumption. In the case in point, a female employee was dismissed for not accepting transfer to a Point of Sale about 150 km ....

With sentence no. 14305/2016 the Court of Cassation confirmed the unlawfulness of dismissal for disciplinary reasons in the case of an employee dismissed during a dispute over the recognition by the employer of a revised job description involving additional duties. The employee in question took possession of documents useful for the case, sending them from ....

A few months after the online procedure for the notification of resignation and agreements to terminate employment came into effect, amendments are already being recommended. The Employment Committees of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate have approved, with some observations, the proposal of Labor Consultants to introduce «corrective measures» to improve the new procedure ....

Dans le cadre de la séance du 22 juillet 2016, la Commission Travail du Sénat, a approuvé le « nouveau » texte de projet de loi sur le travail indépendant et le travail flexible (le « smart working »), en apportant d’importantes modifications au texte d’origine présenté par le gouvernement en 2015. Concernant le travail indépendant, la réglementation est ....