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Ordinary illness protected period inapplicable to disabled employee
Published on Sole24Ore - Nt Lavoro - on 27/05/2024. It constitutes indirect discrimination to apply the ordinary illness protected period to the disabled employee, because the failure to take into account the greater risk to get sick...
Protected period on case of illness: it is presumed the continuity of the illness even in vertical part-time work
Also in the vertical part-time employment relationship it must be taken into account, for the purpose of calculating the illness protected period (i.e. the period of absence from work, for illness or injury, during which the employee cannot be dismissed), the non-working days falling in the period of absence, assuming the continuity of the illness.
Tribunal of Rome, order of July 18, 2021