Watson Farley & Williams LLP

Partner in the Employment Group

Giuseppe has been working in the area of employment and labour for more than twenty-five years.

His experience across the various areas of employment and labour law ranges from managing litigation on individual and collective dismissals to secondments and suspensions of employment to litigation on classification and change of employees’ duties, disciplinary procedures, breaches of non-compete clauses and solicitation of employees. He has acquired significant experience in reduction in workforce procedures and transfers of businesses, including within the context of M&A deals.

Giuseppe has a proven track record in agency matters, both in-court and out-of-court. He has significant experience and specialised over the years in industrial relations and regularly deals with negotiating and drafting collective company agreements, assisting companies at all stages of information and negotiation with trade unions.

He advises on the forms of establishment of executive, para-subordinate and independent labour relations, on the provision of incentive plans and exclusivity constraints for personnel and the establishment of tailor-made agreements for directors of corporations, as well as on agency relations. Giuseppe deals with the drafting and revision of company contracts and collective labour agreements and assists companies in the information and negotiation stages with trade unions. He also deals with public employment, with a specific background in disputes in the local authority and school sectors.

He regularly contributes to the daily business paper ‘Il Sole 24 Ore’ and is often invited to debate employment and labour issues on the broadcaster RAI Radio1 daily programmes. Giuseppe is also a regular speaker at seminars organised by employers’ associations and he teaches at the AIDP (Italian Association of HR Managers) annual Master and the biennial Master in Employment Law organised by AGI (Italian Employment Lawyers Association) with the support of the National Bar Council.

Giuseppe co-authored the 2019 and 2021 editions of ‘Memento Pratico Licenziamento’, edited by Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre and the 2019 edition of the ‘Codice del lavoro. Normativa, prassi e riferimenti giurisprudenziali’, edited by Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre. He is co-author of the book ‘Decreto Dignità, Le nuove norme di lavoro’, edited by Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre in 2018. He also co-wrote the books ‘Nuovo Codice dei contratti di lavoro e modifiche delle mansioni’, edited by Giuffré Editore in 2015 and ‘Il licenziamento del dirigente’, edited by Giuffré Editore in 2015. Finally, Giuseppe is the author of the book ‘Il contenzioso del lavoro nelle istituzioni scolastiche ed educative’, edited by Spaggiari in 2007.