Case Law

Par sentence n° 14193 du 12 juillet 2016, la Cour de Cassation a confirmé que l’obligation de repêchage au sein d’un groupe ne s’applique pas au dirigeant licencié pour motif économique. Dans le cas en question, un dirigeant avait fait recours auprès des autorités judiciaires car, selon ses dires, le licenciement lui ayant été infligé ....

With sentence no. 15226 dated 22 July 2016, the Court of Cassation rejected the petition of a female employee seeking to overturn the sentence of the court of Appeals which upheld her dismissal for disciplinary reasons i.e. absenteeism because of her failure to submit a medical certificate. In the account of the employee, she went ....

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 ....