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The 2016 Bill, submitted last year, allowing women up to 3 days paid menstrual leave is causing controversy as it resurfaces in a heated debate in the Italian national parliament …

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The Department of Labour and Social Security has formalized its constraints on the posting of workers from all foreign countries by setting up an on-line portal …

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It is becoming increasingly difficult for Italian companies to outsource work to call centres outside the EU …

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Following a national collective agreement for executives (“Dirigenti” and “Quadri”) in the Industrial sector in 2015, a new agreement covering executives in the tertiary, distribution and services sector was agreed this Summer and has just come fully into force …

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After remaining static for three months, average contractual hourly wage rates in June rose by 0 …

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The Italian government is planning to introduce a number of measures to combat absenteeism, particularly in the public sector …

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A first instance court in Verona has denied access to a corporate email account by a dismissed employee who was seeking reinstatement …

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A first instance court in Verona has denied access to a corporate email account by a dismissed employee who was seeking reinstatement …

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There is increasing controversy over the use of job vouchers as payment for a broad range of positions throughout the private sector in Italy …

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Employers wishing to hire non-EU nationals to work in Italy this year should move quickly to submit their applications before the annual quota is met …

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Following an amendment to Italian law, private-sector employees suffering from serious illnesses requiring life-saving treatment or from medical conditions ‘underlying or connected to’ a recognised disability are now formally exempt from the requirement to be available at their home during certain hours during sickness absence …

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The local assembly for the Italian region of Lombardy is the latest public authority to ban the wearing of the Islamic veil and burqa in hospitals and local government offices …

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According to data from Italy’s national statistical office, Istat, at the end of September 2015 62% of employees were covered by wage setting provisions in national collective agreements …

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Italy’s Supreme Court recently agreed with Palermo’s Court of Appeal that a company’s decision to dismiss an employee for watching pornographic DVDs at work was unlawful …

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On September 24th 2015 the final four decrees of Italy’s Jobs Act came into force …

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