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Snacks: Digestible Weekly Labour News – Issue 20930 April 2025

WEEKLY ITALIAN LABOUR UPDATES

"Fixed-term contracts exceeding 12 months duration are possible only for specific business reasons."

In this edition of Snacks, our bitesize weekly Italian employment law update, we look at the following recent cases and notices:
  • night availability is part of working hours;
  • stressful work environment and employer’s liability for health damage;
  • probationary agreement null and void if previous non-regularised work occurred;
  • dismissal of disabled employee for exceeding maximum sick leave period;
  • unlawful to advance severance pay in the pay slip;
  • investigative checks during working hours; and
  • unauthorised holidays leave and justified dismissal.

If you would like to receive further details on any of the above points, please get in touch with our Italy employment team.

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