LABLAW Founding Partner Luca Failla is the contributing author of the Italian chapter on employment law in the latest addition to the acclaimed series, Chambers Global Practice Guide to Employment 2019, Second Edition.
The Italian Employment guide provides expert commentary on the practical legal issues affecting businesses across the globe, focusing on the framework governing the employment relationship, including wages, working conditions and benefits, as well as the protocols, procedures and limitations associated with the hiring of foreign workers, whether they are EU or EEA citizens, or third party nationals.
The Italian chapter also sheds light on trending issues impacting the workplace, including the modernisation of industrial relations and the increased importance of working “objectives”, a key element of the Smart Working management philosophy; changes to the rules regarding the pensionable age, following the introduction of the Quota 100 Decree (Law Decree 28 January 2019 No 4); the academic excellence incentive and other youth employment measures introduced by the Italian government that aim to encourage businesses to hire on indefinite employment contracts the top academic graduates in their class, in return for offering to exempt employers from paying social security contributions on their salaries for the first 12 months of their employment, among other incentives; the impact on Italian law in the wake of the new maternity and paternity leave provisions entering into force in early 2019; and, not least of which, the demand that employer’s strictly adhere to the heightened privacy and security responsibilities applicable to EU employees in order to comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). To view the Chambers Global Practice Guide to Employment in Italy 2019, Second Edition in its entirety click here.
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