Remote control of workers' activities under the "JobsAct" (art. 23 D.Lgs. 151/2015): ideas to a debate

Abstract

The introduction aims at giving an overview of the new article 4 of the Worker’s Statute (Law no. 300/1970), concerning the employer’s monitoring powers, as recently reformed by the latest Italian Labour Reform (the so called Jobs Act).In particular, after a brief explanation of the rationale underlying the new rule, in order to make the employer’s control power compatible with the improvement of technological tools in the workplace, the Author critically lists and takes into consideration the heterogeneous and complicated interpretative issues raised by the brand new reform.

Keywords

• employer’s monitoring powers
• Jobs Act
• privacy
• employee’s dignity