Limited contracts and innovative start up
Innovative start-ups are corporations (and cooperatives) which are new or recently established, have their main office and market in Italy, shares which are owned mostly by physical persons, their company objectives oriented towards development and production or commercialization of innovative or highly technological products and services.New Development Decree 2.0 (Conversion Law number 221 of December […]
Durc (tax and wage compliance certificate)
With the ruling 33/2013 of 11th December 2013, the Ministry of Labour provides clarification with regard to the correct interpretation of D. M. October 24, 2007 on the “methods of issuing, the analytical contents of the tax and wage compliance certificate””.Following the request made by the National Council of Labour Consultants on the correct identification […]
If you record me I will fire you … even if you feel bullied
Court of Appeal – Labour Division – Sentence October 2nd – November 21st of 2013 no. 26143The dismissal of those who record the conversations of their colleagues without their knowledge is legitimate. For this reason the Labour division of the Court of Appeal has confirmed, with the sentence of October 2nd – November 21st of […]
Representation: confederal-confindustria agreement
Confindustria and confederate trade unions have signed a Consolidated Law on Representation, which, as delivered in their joint statement, “constitutes a true and unique law on the subject of trade union representation composed of four parts which regulate: the measurement of union representation at national and company level; the methods aimed at guaranteeing the effective […]
The TFR, accrued severance pay, is payable by the transferor even if the employment relationship is terminated after the sale of the company
The sentence n. Section 19291 of 22.09.2011 of the Supreme Court Labour Division has gone a bit unnoticed. Yet it is important because it has confirmed, perhaps for once and for all, the principle according to which the employee’s severance pay does not only come into existence at the time of termination of a contract, […]
There is no longer a security programme document
Article 45 of legislative decree no. 5/2012 (the so-called simplification order), has altered the Code of Privacy, abolishing for those who manage sensitive personal data, using IT tools, the obligation to draft the security programme document by March of each year.
Simplifications even for contractors
The second clause of article. 29 of legislative decree no. 276/2003 provides that “In the case of contracted work or services the client company or employer is jointly obliged with the contractor, as well with each of the additional possible subcontractors within the limit of two years from the termination of the contract, to pay […]
Ex post controllable e-mail
The employer cannot – as would be a violation of article 4 of the Workers’ Statute – control e-mails to check “from a distance”” the employees’ fulfilments of work. However, they may, if holding evidence to suggest that an employee is performing illegal acts (for example, the disclosure of confidential company information, in violation of […]