DLP Insights

On 13 July 2016 the draft agreement was signed for the renewal of the industrial laundry sector COLLECTIVE LABOUR AGREEMENT, which expired on 30 June 2015. The agreement provides for an average wage increase of Euro 70 for level A3, to be paid in three tranches: (i) EUR 30 from 1 July 2016; (ii) Euro ....

On 21 July 2016, the renewal of the COLLECTIVE LABOUR AGREEMENT for managers of the Tertiary, Distribution and Service sector, was finalised between Confcommercio and Manageritalia. One of the major novelties notably relates to the reduction of the protected period to 240 days in one year, during which full remuneration is paid to the manager, ....

La Cour d’appel de Milan, dans son jugement n° 439/2016, a adopté le principe selon lequel les messages de courrier électronique échangés entre salariés dans le cadre d’une liste de distribution constituent une correspondance épistolaire privée, rentrant dans le cadre de la protection des communications de nature personnelle. Selon la Cour, le caractère personnel « se ....

The Court of Cassation with judgement No. 13455, filed on 30 June 2016, said the dismissal for prolonged absence imposed on a working mother for failing to comply with her employer’s order to resume service at a business unit located in a different municipality from the one where the woman worked at the time of ....

The Court of Cassation judgement No. 13676 of 5 July 2016, confirmed the principle of law already expressed by judgement No. 2550 of 10 February 2015, whereby for the purposes of the lawfulness of dismissal for just cause it is not necessary for the worker to have established expressly-prohibited conduct, but rather, it is sufficient ....