Case Law

By way of judgment No. 9467/2016 the Court of Cassation has stated that the dismissal for justified objective grounds is lawful if the employer gives “evidence as to both the fact that the dismissal may be specifically referred to initiatives related to actual productive and organisational reasons, and as to the impossibility to use the ....

By way of judgment No. 10069/2016 the Court of Cassation has stated the principle pursuant to which “the employer has the power, but not the obligation, to continuously and regularly control its own employees”. In the case at issue and by reversing the decisions of the judges ruling on the merits, the Court of Cassation ....

By judgment no. 7313 published on 13 April 2016, the Court of Cassation has ruled that, in order to assess the existence of an accident on the way to and from work in case of use of a bicycle, it is necessary to keep into account not only the distance between home and workplace but ....

By judgment no. 6265, published on 31 March 2016, the Court of Cassation has sanctioned the principle whereby an employee refusing to transfer may be considered as resigning from employment. In the case in question, the worker had contested the legitimacy of the employer’s order to transfer to another production unit, and refused to comply. ....

The Court of Cassation, IV Criminal Section, by judgment no. 12683 of 29 March 2016, has ruled that an employer is responsible for any injury caused by inexperience, negligence or imprudence of workers, except in case of absolute irrationality of the behaviour of the latter. In the case at hand, a worker fell disastrously on ....