Legitimacy of dismissal for extra-occupational conduct 29.11.2024

The Court of Appeal of Trieste confirmed the correctness of a dismissal for extra-work-related conduct that violated the so-called ‘ethical minimum’.

LEGLAB Avvocati represented and defended the company: in the present case, the conduct inherent in the employee’s private life, normally irrelevant for the purposes of damaging the relationship of trust between employee and employer, takes on relevance for this purpose and may constitute just cause for dismissal, where actions and conduct outside the sphere of the contract are such, by their seriousness and nature, as to undermine that trust which is the essential prerequisite for cooperation between employer and employee, in that they are detrimental to the interests of the company or, in any event, manifestly contrary to common ethics.