{"id":10367,"date":"2023-04-11T14:51:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T12:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zambellipartners.com\/?p=10367"},"modified":"2023-04-14T16:32:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:32:38","slug":"the-legal-500-employment-labour-law-comparative-guide-2023-is-now-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zambellipartners.com\/en\/the-legal-500-employment-labour-law-comparative-guide-2023-is-now-online\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legal 500 Employment &#038; Labour Law Comparative Guide 2023 is now online"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>The Legal 500 Employment &amp; Labour Law Country Comparative Guide 2023 in now online. Th<b>e Italian Chapter was edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zambellipartners.com\/en\/team\/\">Zambelli &amp; Partners<\/a><\/b><\/h2>\n<p>The country-specific Q&amp;A, drafted by partners of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zambellipartners.com\/en\/\">Zambelli &amp; Partners<\/a>, is now available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/guides\/chapter\/italy-employment-and-labour-law\/\">legal500.com<\/a> and provides an overview of Employment and Labour laws and regulations applicable in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Below is an extract, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/guides\/chapter\/italy-employment-and-labour-law\/\">click here to read the Q&amp;A on legal500.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 5\">\n<h3><\/h3>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<h3><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\">1. <\/strong>Does an employer need a reason to lawfully terminate an employment relationship? If so, state what reasons are lawful in your jurisdiction<strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\">?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 5\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Over the trial period, any employment relationships may be legitimately terminated by the employer even if neither a \u201ccause\u201d for termination nor other specific reasons allowing employees\u2019 dismissal occur.<\/p>\n<p>Once the trial period ends, employment contracts executed with employees holding the qualification of middle-manager (\u201cquadro\u201d), white-collar or blue-collar may be lawfully terminated by the employer only where any out of the reasons detailed below occurs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a cause for termination (\u201cgiusta causa\u201d), this being a breach by the employee whose seriousness prevents the continuation, even on a temporary basis, of the employment relationship (for example, the theft of the employer\u2019s goods);<\/li>\n<li>subjective justified grounds (\u201cgiustificato motivo soggettivo\u201d), these being a less serious breach by the employee (for example, unjustified absences from work);<\/li>\n<li>objective justified grounds (\u201cgiustificato motivo oggettivo\u201d), which qualify as those reasons relating to the production, the work organization or its regular operation (namely, individual redundancies).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Employment contracts executed with executive status employees (\u201cdirigenti\u201d) are governed by specific rules set forth by the national collective bargaining agreements applicable to such category of employees, which generally provide for that their dismissal must be \u201cjustified\u201d (according to case-law precedents hereof, the dismissal of an executive is \u201cjustified\u201d whenever it relies on reasons other than false, arbitrary, discriminatory or unfounded grounds).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3><strong style=\"font-size: 16px;\">2. <\/strong>What, if any, additional considerations apply if large numbers of dismissals (redundancies) are planned? How many employees need to be affected for the additional considerations to apply?<\/h3>\n<p>A specific procedure (the \u201ccollective dismissal procedure\u201d) within which the employer is charged with information and consultation obligations towards the external trade unions\/internal works councils has to be triggered in advance whenever an employer staffed with more than 15 employees \u2013 due to reduction, transformation or shutdown of activities \u2013 intends to dismiss, within a 120-day term, at least 5 employees employed at the same production unit or at different production units within the same province.<\/p>\n<p>For details about such procedure, please refer to question no. 7 below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 5\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2023\/04\/italy-employment-1.pdf\">Click here to read the full Guide in pdf format.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Legal 500 Employment &amp; Labour Law Country Comparative Guide 2023 in now online. 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