Italy: private investigators can legally investigate employees’ behavior if it seems illegal

Based on a consolidating jurisprudence, through still not unanimous, a recent decree by the Supreme Court allows using private investigators to investigate employees' illicit behavior if it harms the company's patrimony. (Ref. 080841)
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Appealing to private investigators to control employees’ behavior, commonly used to uncover illicit behavior among cashiers in supermarkets, was against judged legal in a recent decision by the Supreme Court in the case of a cashier fired because she failed to register some purchases. Evidence was brought by a private investigator employed by the company. The Court said this appeal was legal, based on article 2 of Law 300/70, entitled Statuto dei lavoratori (“Workers’ Statute”, the law which pr

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