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Supreme Court decision on access to employees' email for investigation purposes

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • Italy
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  • May 2 2012

The Italian workers' statute forbids employers from remotely controlling its employees' activities unless the devices through which the control is performed are agreed with the works council or authorised by the local body of the Labour Ministry

Disciplinary dismissal for just cause

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • Italy
  • -
  • July 1 2011

If an employee is dismissed for just cause following a disciplinary proceeding, it is not possible for the employer to add new circumstances - different from those originally contested - to sustain the just cause, according to a recent ruling from the Supreme Court

Monitoring activities and just cause of dismissal

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • Italy
  • -
  • July 1 2011

The prohibition under national law against monitoring employees' activities through audio-visual devices does not apply when it comes to guarding a company's assets - and the Supreme Court has stressed that it is possible to install cameras for reasons of organisation, productivity and safety at the workplace

Fixed-term employment contracts

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • Italy
  • -
  • July 1 2011

A recent Supreme Court decision makes it clear that the technical, productive, organisational or substitutive reasons on the basis of which it is possible to enter into a fixed-term contract must be specified by the employer in a precise and detailed manner

Objective dismissal for decrease in turnover

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • Italy
  • -
  • July 1 2011

The Italian Supreme Court has ruled that a decrease in turnover can justify the objective aspect of dismissal, particularly when it is not possible to re-appoint an employee under activities appropriate to his level

Disputes, arbitration and dismissal

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • Italy
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  • January 17 2011

Several significant changes to Italian employment law came into force on 24 November 2010 by means of Law No. 183210

Recent Supreme Court decision about video-recording devices in the workplace

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • Italy
  • -
  • July 6 2010

The Italian Supreme Court has recently issued a decision on the use of information collected using video-recording devices in the workplace against employees

Substitute tax regime court decision puts some bridge financing structures at risk

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • Italy
  • -
  • November 24 2009

It is quite common in the Italian market to structure leveraged buy-out transactions andor real estate finance transactions with a bridge loan and later refinance the bridge facility with a secured long-term facility agreement

Dismissal - and hiring new employees

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • Italy
  • -
  • November 20 2009

The Supreme Court recently held that an employee's employment had been terminated for justified objective reasons: a drastic reduction in sales of the employer's products and no scope for redeploying the employee

Compensation for delay in re-instatement

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • Italy
  • -
  • November 20 2009

The Italian Supreme Court recently held that an employee may receive compensation for loss of earnings arising from an employer's delay in complying with a court order to re-instate that employee

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