An employee who publicly insults a colleague using homophobic language is liable to dismissal for disciplinary reasons, Italy's highest court has ruled. In a judgment handed down on 9 March, the Court of Cassation overturned a 2020 ruling by Bologna's court of appeal. The decision comes amid a crackdown by the Italian government on the rights of LGBT+ people.
The Italian Court of Cassation’s judgment 7029 comes at a time when Giorgia Meloni’s government (a coalition led by the far-right Fratelli d’Italia party) is taking a hard line on the rights of LGBT+ people.
Dismissal overturned as deemed “disproportionate”
As detailed in the latest ruling, the case involved a bus driver who had called out in public (at the bus stop) to a colleague waiting to start her shift. On learning that she had given birth to twins, the driver was surprised, asking...
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Hélène Martinelli
Freelance