Il saggio è destinato al “Liber amicorum Carlo Cester”, in corso di pubblicazione.

The appropriate significance of the concept of “material fact claimed against the employee” stands out among the most frequently debated issues concerning the recently introduced labour contract denominated “increasing protections” agreement. Such concept relates to Article 3, paragraph 2 of the legislative decree no. 23/2015 (regarding le “cases of dismissal for cause and/or justified subjective reasons”); and in the absence of such requisite the dismissal shall be voidable and the employee shall be entitled to both, to be re-instated in her former position and to an indemnification.
This essay purports an in-depth analysis of the meaning of the adjective “material” (which represents a new aspect of the law, especially if compared with Art. 18, paragraph 4 of the Law no. 300/1970), and it compares such term with analogous concepts as used within sbstantive criminal law (e.g., the criminal offence consisting in false corporate disclosures) and criminal procedure (e.g. the general principle of ne bis in idem).