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Employer can change the working time to full-time employees
The limits on the right to modify working hours provided for part-timers do not apply to full-time employees. In such a case, the right may be limited only by agreements.
Court of Cassation, Order No. 31349 of 03 November 2021.
Achievement of pension requirements and consequences on the employment relationship
The achievement of the pension requirements allows the termination ad nutum of the employment relationship and not its automatic termination.
The case originates from the court claim filed by an employee dismissed as part of a collective dismissal procedure
Exemption from direct transfer of surplus employees in the event of bankruptcy of the transferor
Court of Cassation, Order No 24691 of 14 September 2021
The employer’s withdraw from a non-competition agreement during the employment relationship is always unlawful
Court of Cassation, Order No 23723 of 1 September 2021
Labour judge and bankruptcy judge: division of competences
Quotidiano del Lavoro – Il Sole 24 Ore, 2 September 2021 – Marco Tesoro
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
Demotion agreement: requirements for validity and damages
Court of Cassation Order 8 July 2021 no. 19522
Time spent changing into and out of work clothes (so-called “donning and doffing”) is unpaid if the employee chooses when and where to do it
Donning and doffing is not remunerated if the employer has no say in where, when and how it is done.
Court of Cassation, labour section, order no. 15763 of 7 June 2021