He clocked in and left: Court of Cassation confirms dismissal of Eav employee

The Court of Cassation has confirmed the legitimacy of the dismissal of an employee of Eav who, after having regularly clocked in, would have left the workplace to carry out personal activities.

The same person made it known Volturno Autonomous Body, who expressed in a statement satisfaction with the Supreme Court's decision, stressing that the decision recognizes the validity of the evidence collected by the company. A central aspect of the case concerns theuse of a detective agency to ascertain the employee's illicit conduct, a measure that the Court of Cassation has deemed legitimate.

“The ruling clarifies the defensive checks and the disciplinary procedure adopted, confirming the correctness of the dismissal”, has explained Marcello D'Aponte, Eav's lawyer who followed the case in all levels of judgment. The ruling of the Court of Cassation reaffirms fundamental principles of labor law, including the ability of the employer to use private investigations to verify potentially fraudulent behavior, the validity of the testimonies of private investigators and the legitimacy of the disciplinary procedure followed by the company.

The president of is also satisfied Eav, Umberto De Gregorio, who defined the sentence an important jurisprudential precedent, useful for strengthening protections for companies against incorrect behavior of some disloyal employees. “These attitudes - he added - they mortify the efforts and sacrifices of the majority of honest workers”.