Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Italy which reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Italy: New rules for the resignation of working parents
The facility for working parents with children under 3 to register and validate their resignation or consensual termination online has ended …
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Italy: “Simplified smart working” may continue until August 2022
Smart working has been extended until 30th June 2022, but 31st August 2022 in some cases …
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Italy: Additional probation period following fixed-term employment is valid
May an employer require a second probationary period when an employee transfers from a fixed-term to permanent position? A Tribunal in Lodi has decided that it is legally valid to ask an employee to undertake a further probation in such circumstances …
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Italy: Redundancies involving two companies
If two or more companies are part of the same Group and employment relationships are jointly managed in any way, then a collective redundancy must cover both entities …
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Italy: Employer responsible for accidents at work if violations are not punished
Full responsibility for an accident at work automatically passes to an employer if they previously failed to discipline an employee for a similar unsafe activity …
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Italy: Notification of hiring platform workers to the Ministry of Labour
It is now an obligation for employers to register the employment of every new platform-based employee via the online SPID system before the employment begins …
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Italy: Nestlé introduces three-month paternity leave allowance
Food manufacturer Nestlé has agreed to offer three months paid leave to assist with baby care, plus a large one-off bonus …
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Italy: Enel, Filctem, Flaei and Uiltec sign the “Statuto della Persona” to enhance the rights of the individual in the workplace
What has been heralded as a new type of collective agreement has been concluded between the State controlled energy company ENEL and the Filctem-Cgil, Flaei-Cisl and Uiltec trade unions …
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Italy: Measures to deal with the economic fall-out from the Ukraine war
The government has taken steps to deal with the economic fall-out from the Ukraine war …
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Italy: Employee’s waiver of future rights null and void
Companies should guard against putting their name to settlement agreements that contain a clause through which an employee signs away future rights …
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Italy: Termination for managers sending angry emails to senior management is legitimate
Angry email by a manager to his employer broke “relationship of trust” and thus justified dismissal …
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Italy: Employer health and safety responsibilities
Both actual and legal responsibility for health and safety at work may not be delegated to anyone without adequate decision making, or spending power, to keep the workplace risk free …
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Italy: Dismissal based on same reasons as collective redundancy unlawful
A company that uses the same data and reasoning to justify two consecutive collective redundancy programmes is operating a fraudulent scheme …
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Italy: Smart working extended until June 2022
Smart working extended for three months until 30th June 2022 …
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Italy: Court rejects referendum to liberalise cannabis
A growing section of the population supports the production and consumption of cannabis …
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