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The cameras, in certain cases, can directly film the workers. On the other hand, no authorizations or union agreements are required for biometric recognition systems.
As is known, article 4 of law no. 300/70 has been modified by article 23 of Legislative Decree no. 151/2015 and the subsequent article 5, paragraph 2, of the legislative decree no. 185/2016, so that today it is no longer generally forbidden to use remote control instruments (audio-visual and other equipment), but we tend to consider such tools (with union agreement or administrative authorization) as legitimate and usable for purposes related to organizational and production needs such as job security and for the protection of company assets.
Pursuant to the new provision of article 4 cited, the limitations and procedures provided for by the law in question do not apply with reference to those tools that are assigned to workers and used by them to perform work (by way of example, tablets, smartphones, badges, etc.), for the use of which neither trade union nor the alternative administrative authorization are required.
With the circular no. 5 of 19 February 2017, the National Labour Institute, in specifying the procedures to be followed in the preliminary assessment of the conditions legitimating remote monitoring of workers, made it clear that workers may also be monitored while they are carrying out their work provided that this happens accidentally and occasionally and there are justifying reasons for the monitoring (for example protection of “job security”” or “”company assets””).
In this case it is not necessary to prescribe the number of cameras to be installed, their positioning, the adoption of a certain “”angle of recovery”