Catégories: Case Law
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 ....
Catégories: Case Law
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 ....
Catégories: Case Law
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 ....
Catégories: Case Law
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 ....
Catégories: Case Law
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 ....