Indirect discrimination in case of determining the same grace period for disabled workers

The Supreme Court's decision no. 170/2025 recognises the indirect discrimination in applying a uniform protected period to disabled and non-disabled workers.

With decision no. 170 of January 7^th, 2025, the Italian Supreme Court reiterated that applying a uniform grace period to all employees, without considering the specific condition of disabled workers, constitutes indirect discrimination against the latter.

This article was originally written by the Labour Law Observatory team, to which we refer for the whole text.

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