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Coffee Breaks, Smartphones and Personal Emails: How They Can Legally Fire You for Things You Do Every Day
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Company phone for personal use, repeated coffee breaks, Facebook posts against the employer: the Supreme Court has established that many routine workplace behaviours can constitute grounds for dismissal. Here's what to watch out for.
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From 2026 the Public Sector Salary Transfer Stops Automatically If You Have Tax Debts. Without Warning
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The 2025 Budget Law extends to public administrations the mechanism of automatic preventive checks: if you have overdue tax debts and receive a payment above a certain threshold, the transfer may be suspended pending collection proceedings.
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Your Boss Fires You for Being Sick Too Much. They're Committing a Serious Offence
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An employer cannot dismiss you because your sick leave absences reduced productivity. The Supreme Court has clarified that there is no poor performance when the cause is the employee's health. Until the protection period under the collective agreement is exhausted, the job is untouchable.
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Your TFR being paid in instalments and you think you can't do anything? You can
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The Italian severance fund (TFR) must be paid in full at the end of the employment relationship. Instalment payment without consent is unlawful — unless the employer is insolvent, in which case the INPS guarantee fund intervenes.
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Made redundant due to business crisis and two weeks later they hire your replacement. It's illegal
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Dismissal for justified objective reasons requires that the role actually disappears. If the company hires someone else for the same job shortly afterwards, the dismissal is unlawful and the employee is entitled to reinstatement or compensation.
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