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The main provisions of the labor reform - which will be applied to both the existing contracts and the future ones - will be: (i) in case of dismissal for economic (or objective) reasons, a compensation equal to from 15 up to 27 monthly salaries;

Court of Cassation, with sentence no. 4258/2012, stated that the dismissal of an executive who uses the password of others to enter into the company system is unlawful if that is a normal practice in the office, confirming the decision of the Court of Appeal of Milan.

Court of Cassation, third civil section, with sentence no. 3959/12 filed on March 13, 2012, confirmed the validity of the notification sent to the former company registered office, should not the transfer of the registered office in a different province, though remarked on the company certificate issued by the Chamber of Commerce, have been announced also through the deletion of the former registered office from the Register of the Companies.

The social security reform, provided by Law Decree No. 201/2011 aims at harmonization. In 2021, in fact, men and women will retire for old age at 67 years.

Court of Cassation, with sentence no. 8555/12, stated the liability for the crimes of robbery and damage in the case the employee deletes or damages company files, being irrelevant the following recovery of the items through the intervention on payment of a specialized technician.