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The firm: Toffoletto De Luca Tamajo is the leading Italian specialist for employers in employment and labour law. Its dedicated team of 27 partners and more than 150 associates and staff operates from the firm’s offices in Milan, Naples, Rome, Bergamo, Brescia, Bologna, Genoa and Varese.

The firm has worked exclusively with companies for over 90 years on all aspects of HR management; from providing day-to-day legal advice to litigation. On 1st January 2020, the firm expanded its services beyond employment law, adding further services that include employment consultancy, human resource management and payroll.

Toffoletto De Luca Tamajo is one of the five members that founded the Ius Laboris Alliance (www.iuslaboris.com), the largest global alliance of leading employment, labour and pensions law firms. Through the alliance, the firm is able to offer clients the highest standard legal services across 57 countries: truly global coverage, with local knowledge and expertise. The firm regularly manages cross-border projects across multiple jurisdictions; always finding the innovative solutions tailored to its clients’ ever-changing needs.

The firm, and its professionals, are consistently rated at both a national and international level among the top leaders in the field of employment and labour law. Some of the firm’s most recent national awards include:

• Employment Law Firm of the Year at the Legalcommunity Labour Awards 2018 and 2019 (the most prestigious national awards dedicated exclusively to labour law);
• Law Firm of the Year Industrial Relations and Social Security Law at the TopLegal Awards 2018 and 2019 (awards which the monthly publication, TopLegal, assigns every year to the number one firms in the Italian legal market).

The firm is also known for its legal technology projects. In fact, in 2018 and 2019 the firm was ranked among the 50 Most Innovative Law Firms in Europe by the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Europe Report. In 2019, the firm was commended in two categories: Data, Knowledge and Intelligence and New Products and Services. The firm’s Automated Contract Creation Platform was also selected as a finalist for the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe in 2018, and was also recognised in the New Products and Services and Technology categories. The Financial Times also recognised the firm for its use of technology in 2015 for a new and unique piece of case and practicemanagement software: iLex. This very software also earned the firm another award in 2017: the Digital Professional Award in 2017 for the Law Firm category, which was awarded by the prestigious Digital Innovation Observatory of Politecnico University of Milan. The firm was also awarded the Digital Professional Award in 2019 for an inhouse pricing and staffing module.

The firm’s lawyers are also recognised as leading experts in the field. By way of example, Franco Toffoletto, the firm’s Managing Partner has consistently been named in the Hall of Fame by Legal 500, and is ranked in the top tier of other legal directories. Most recently, he was recognised in the top ten of Legalcommunity’s ‘Best 50lawyers in Italy 2019’ list as an Innovator, and in 2018 he won the ‘Lawyer of the year: Employment consultancy’ award at the TopLegal Awards. Raffaele De Luca Tamajo, the firm’s Senior Partner, is also consistently recognised by the top international legal directories, and has also won the ‘Employment Lawyer of the Year’ award at the TopLegal Awards.

The firm’s partners are members of the Italian Employment Lawyers Association (Avvocati Giuslavoristi Italiani – AGI, www.giuslav.it), EELA – European Employment Lawyers Association (www.eela.org) and IBA (www.ibanet.org).

Details of the firm’s profile, services and partners are all available on the website, www.toffolettodeluca.it.

Practice Areas: The firm advises both domestic and international clients in all sectors, including: banking, insurance, financial services, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, advertising, media, telecommunications, information technology, automotive, aviation, mining, manufacturing, fashion, food and beverage, real estate, publishing and retail, on all matters.

The firm strives to develop a close and long-term relationship with each of its clients. Its aim is to achieve ‘win-win’ situations for its clients and to ensure its business relationships are easy, efficient and productive.

The firm assists clients through the provision of legal services in every aspect of employment and labour law. These include:

Employment & Labour: Negotiation of collective agreements; interpretation of collective agreements; strategic considerations on the possibilities and risks of industrial conflicts; participation in trade union negotiations; assistance in the elaboration of business and managerial strategies; assistance in agreements for the constitution of European Work Councils; litigation.

M&A & Restructuring: Employee-related due diligence; planning of employment law issues in the context of mergers and acquisitions; outsourcing and restructuring processes; collective redundancies; audits and due diligence.

Drawing Up of Employment Contracts: Restrictive covenants, confidentiality clauses, privacy clauses, employee inventions and non-competition clauses.

Human Resources Management: Employment procedures and policies; smart working policies; company regulations; confidentiality procedures; use of IT equipment and email; employee monitoring procedures; data privacy; disciplinary codes and code of ethics; technology and employee rights; international secondments.

Executive Compensation & Incentive Arrangements: Bonus schemes and stock option plans; employee benefits; employee welfare benefit plans.

Management of Employment Contracts: Application of disciplinary sanctions; transfers, changes of job or other conditions of the employ- ment contract; reduction-in-workforce, plant closure and collective redundancies.

Employment & HR Management Consultancy: Pay slips, Relations with the local authorities (INPS, INAIL, etc.), Payment of social security contributions, Periodical statements (Form 770, etc.), Strategical advice regarding staff policies.

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	Ms Annalisa Ammirati		View Profile
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