Unjustified absence for more than 15 days: from 12 January 2025 the employer can (finally!) consider the employment relationship terminated by resignation

No more (forced) dismissal in the case of an employee’s prolonged absence. It can now, rightly, be considered voluntary resignation. ‘In the event of an unjustified absence of the worker beyond the period provided for by the national collective agreement applied, the employer must inform the National Labour Inspectorate (INL), which can verify the veracity […]

The role of Women in the world of work

Despite some progress in guaranteeing the presence of women at various levels, including top positions of economic and financial institutions, the overall situation is still highly unsatisfactory. On 28 February 2022, in the context of the International Women’s day 2022, European Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender […]

Burnout in the digital work world post COVID

Increasingly digitalised workplaces and the ability to work anytime, anywhere create both opportunities and risks for the well-being of workers. The EMPL (European Committee on Employment and Social Affairs) held a workshop on 2 December 2021 on Mental health and well-being in the digital world of work post COVID. The workshop had four presentations, each […]

Italian fixed-term contract with the collective agreement’s condition

The “Sostegni Bis Decree” introduced an important innovation to the discipline of fixed-term contracts. Collective agreements can identify new reasons in the presence of which it will be possible to stipulate a term contract lasting more than 12 months. The condition must identify specific and concrete hypotheses without using generic formulations (“technical, organizational …”) that […]

Whistleblowing: Italian Guarantor reminds employment and privacy protections

The issue is always particularly crucial both for the information handled and for the high risks of retaliation and discrimination in the workplace. Especially in Italy. The identity of whistleblowers must be protected. The employer, data controller, is required to comply with the principles of data protection, ensuring their integrity and security. This was recently […]

Italian employees and green certification. Better to summarise

  Can the Italian employer request the green pass from employees? Better to summarise the current heterogeneous and unclear scenario. First of all, there is a guideline on vaccination. The competent doctor is the key person, the only one entitled to process the health data of the workers and to verify their suitability for the […]

Italian freezing of redundancies: better to summarize

  Italian government identifies a solution to face the pressures received (DL 99/2021 of last June 30, Art. 4). Employers in the fashion and extended textile sector with the beginning of the Ateco code 13, 14 and 15 remain precluded until 31 October 2021 from the possibility of individual and collective economic redundancies. In view […]

Italian Subcontracting: The News of the ‘Simplification Decree’

Another change in terms of italian subcontracting. The ‘Simplification Decree’ (Art. 49 DL 77/2021) modifies, temporarily (for now), the legal discipline of the subcontracting regime. Starting from the current month of June here is the news. Until October 31, 2021, the subcontract cannot exceed 50% of the total amount (currently it is 30%). The full […]

Italian Expansion Contract strengthened

  With the recent italian ‘Sostegni Bis’ Decree (art.39, DL 73/2021) the expansion contract is further strengthened (art. 41 DLGS 148/2015). Exclusively for 2021, the minimum limit of workforce required to be able to use the expansion contract is reduced to 100. The number of units also drops to 100 for cases in which a […]

BREXIT: applicable legislation to the posted employee

EU / UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (“TCA”) is applicable from January 1th, 2021 (term extended to April 30, 2021 with decision no. 1 of 23 February 2021 of the Partnership Council). This agreement defines the legislation applicable to the case of EU / UK employees posting. With Circular no. 71 of April 27, 2021, […]