- February 2024
- Italian Data Protection Authority issues new guidelines on employee email management and metadata processing and launches public consultation
- Court of Cassation: Does harassment of a colleague outside of the workplace constitute grounds for dismissal?
- Court of Cassation: Can an employee be dismissed twice?
- Right to smart working for vulnerable workers and for working parents of children under the age of 14 in place through March 31, 2024
- July 2023
- Court of Appeals of Venice, March 30, 2023: Service contract is not proper because workers are subject to hetero-direction by principal’s software
- Court of Cassation No. 18168/2023: Employee dismissal following defensive control that crosses the line is unlawful
- New directive (EU) No. 970/2023 on equal pay for men and women
- Law No. 85/2023: Major changes to the Labor Decree
- May 2023
- Labor Decree no. 48/2023: Major changes to the law
- March 2023
- Transparent and predictable working conditions: Guidelines from the Data Protection Authority on Legislative Decree no. 104/2022
- Supreme Court: Dismissal of an apprentice who had recently been pregnant may be considered discriminatory if supported by statistical data
- Right to smart working for vulnerable workers and for working parents of children under the age of 14 through June 30
- Previous disciplinary sanctions cannot serve as grounds for dismissal for poor performance
- October 2022
- Transparent and predictable working conditions: First clarifications on Legislative Decree 104/2022 have been published
- Smart working: No need for an individual written agreement until the end of the year
- Dismissal for poor performance: Focus on the disciplinary code and PIP
- Employment credit limitation period: It always runs from the termination of the employment relationship
- Solo self-employed persons can bargain collective agreements: European Commission Guidelines
- May 2022
- Gender equality: UNI publishes its guidelines
- Quotaholder-employees: Watch out for the pitfalls of incentive plans