A ruling by the Supreme Court of Cassation, made public on 19 January 2016 affirms the legitimacy of workers to temporarily suspend their activities if their employer cannot guarantee safety conditions at work as well as obliging the employer to pay workers for the period when their activities were suspended.
The Supreme Court examined a case concerning a group of workers at a Fiat plant who in 2008 had stopped working after an incident on an assembly line where a car door fell off the line. Other doors had fallen off previously. Given that this was indeed the umpteenth time, the workers refused to continue working until the company respected its safety at work obligation and repaired the damage. Once repaired the workers took up their work again and in total, work had been halted for one hour...
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