{"id":12514,"date":"2026-01-22T10:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/?p=12514"},"modified":"2026-01-22T12:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:35:32","slug":"labour-the-italian-supreme-court-on-disciplinary-dismissal-of-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/labour-the-italian-supreme-court-on-disciplinary-dismissal-of-executives\/","title":{"rendered":"LABOUR | The Italian Supreme Court on disciplinary dismissal of executives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 2 October 2025, the Italian Supreme\u00a0Court\u00a0issued its judgement in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.italgiure.giustizia.it\/xway\/application\/nif\/clean\/hc.dll?verbo=attach&amp;db=snciv&amp;id=.\/20251002\/snciv@sL0@a2025@n26609@tO.clean.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">case No.\u00a026609<\/a>, in which it\u00a0reaffirmed that, in the context of executive employment,\u00a0the concept of\u00a0<em>giustificatezza<\/em>\u00a0does not coincide with\u00a0<em>giusta\u00a0causa<\/em>. The case concerned the dismissal of a general manager for negligent supervision and inadequate coordination of activities relating to a complex procurement contract.\u00a0The Court confirmed that, although the conduct did not amount to\u00a0<em>giusta\u00a0causa<\/em>, the dismissal was nonetheless justified, as the employer\u2019s decision was not arbitrary, but rather based on the executive\u2019s failure to meet the standards of diligence and oversight required by his role. While executives are not directly liable for the actions of their subordinates, but they are responsible for ensuring effective coordination and strategic direction. The Supreme Court reiterated that a justified disciplinary dismissal of an executive does not require serious misconduct, but may be based on conduct that undermines the relationship of trust between the parties, and dismissed the employee\u2019s appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Newsletter n. 114 \u2013 January 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 2 October 2025, the Italian Supreme\u00a0Court\u00a0issued its judgement in the case No.\u00a026609, in which it\u00a0reaffirmed that, in the context of executive employment,\u00a0the concept of\u00a0giustificatezza\u00a0does not coincide with\u00a0giusta\u00a0causa. The case concerned the dismissal of a general manager for negligent supervision and inadequate coordination of activities relating to a complex procurement contract.\u00a0The Court confirmed that, although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletters"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsingher.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}