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She remained in default. And she did not specify the reasons why she sent two of her collaborators home. For the Court of Milan, labor section, therefore, the “just cause” that would have (perhaps) made the dismissals legitimate was not demonstrated. Ilaria Salis will therefore have to pay a maxi compensation of over 300 thousand euros. Judge Franco Caroleo puts it in black and white, after the appeal of two former assistants of the Avs MEP, ascertaining “the illegitimacy of the withdrawal”. The sentence, filed on March 10, states that it was up to Salis, as employer, to provide “proof of just cause”, but since she did not appear in court, she “evidently did not fulfill her burden”. Therefore, the Court reiterated, “the non-existence of just cause in the challenged withdrawals” must be affirmed. Let’s go in order. Everything stems from the withdrawal communicated by Salis to the two collaborators (who are indicated as Part 1 and Part 2 in the sentence) on February 17, 2025. The MEP’s assistants had been hired on July 30, 2024, a couple of months after her election to the EU Parliament.

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With Part 1, a coordinated and continuous collaboration contract (the famous co.co.co) is stipulated until July 16, 2029 (expiration of the EU legislature) for the “conception” and “development of projects aimed at enhancing the European parliamentary role within the European Parliament, management of campaigns and events” in Italy and abroad. And then “ex post analysis and collection of feedback aimed at the work of the client’s parliamentarian (Salis, ed.)” on “territorial economy”, “economic and labor policies” and analysis of information” on the activity of the deputy, as well as “assistance for contacts with national, regional and local authorities”. With Part 2, on the other hand, the contract (also expiring with the EU legislature) was for the provision of services for the development and management, among other things, of “campaigns and events” in Italy and Europe to communicate “the issues pursued by the parliamentarian with the dual purpose of spreading the latter’s thought and work and creating moments of encounter and contact with citizens”.

Then, on February 17, 2025, the two assistants are dismissed. To Part 1, Salis communicates the early termination of the employment contract due to “the breakdown of the relationship of trust” because “objective reasons of professional unsuitability connected also to the non-realization of the assigned activities” have “progressively emerged, to the point of becoming absolutely obstructive”. Such as, for example, “inadequate support for parliamentary work and failure to start a national contact center with the electorate”. And above all for the “completely inefficient management of the email inbox, with lack of timely responses to received emails”. But also because a “situation of environmental and personal incompatibility” was created and for the “evident non-understanding of her role as a mere collaborator”: “An autonomous management of unagreed activities emerged, not in line with the assigned role and with the client’s needs”.

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To Part 2, the assignment is revoked with immediate effect. Also in this case because, as stated in the dismissal letter, “the relationship of trust” has ceased, which consists “in the manifest dissatisfaction already expressed” regarding the “contents” of the collaboration and “the inadequate and unacceptable contents of the report” requested from the assistant as “justification and verification of an activity deemed unsatisfactory”. A little over a month later, on March 26, the two collaborators challenge the withdrawal out of court (i.e., directly with Salis) and propose to continue working, but without success. At that point, they decide to go to court.

And the Court agrees with them. In both cases, Judge Caroleo writes, “it is indubitable” that Salis wanted to withdraw from the contracts for “just cause”. However, “the defendant,” the sentence reads, “by remaining in default” “evidently did not fulfill her burden.” For this reason, Salis is ordered to compensate her two former assistants for over 300 thousand euros, of which 147,900 will go to Part 1 and 153 thousand euros to Part 2, in addition to the payment of 10 thousand euros in legal costs. The amount of the compensation was quantified based on the salaries that would have been due until the expiration of the employment contracts: 2,900 euros per month for Part 1 and 3,000 euros for Part 2.

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