Practice areas
Employment Law
Assisting employees and employers in labour, union and social security matters throughout Italy.
In employment, trade union and social security matters, Studio Legale Petillo & Partners has solid experience in assisting its clients in court throughout Italy, before the higher national courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Assistance in court covers every kind of dispute concerning:
What we do
- Management of the employment relationship
- Dismissals for just cause and for subjective or objective justified reason, with claims for the reinstatement of the employee and/or compensation for damages
- Protection of employees involved in collective dismissal procedures or in the transfer of a business
- Protection of employees on maternity leave and of employees entitled to the benefits under Law 104/1992
- Claims for salary differences
- Claims for a declaration that an employment relationship is one of subordinate employment
- Challenges to transfers unlawfully imposed on an employee
- Challenges to fixed-term and apprenticeship contracts
- Claims for damages arising from demotion, mobbing and straining, and related compensation claims
- Claims for higher job grades
- Questions concerning non-competition obligations after the end of the employment relationship, and social security disputes
- Recovery of employment-related claims through enforcement proceedings