With Order No. 28790/2025, the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione) takes an important step forward: imposing English as the sole language in meetings of the Special Negotiating Body, without providing interpreting services, constitutes anti-union conduct. The reason is straightforward: without genuinely accessible communication, dialogue between the parties loses effectiveness and workers’ representation is weakened.
On QuotidianoPiù by Lefebvre Giuffrè, our Gaspare Roma explores the issue in depth, explaining how the Court strongly reaffirms the obligation to ensure immediate tools, rather than future solutions such as language courses, enabling the Special Negotiating Body to properly carry out its mandate. A principle that is even more relevant in European contexts, where linguistic diversity must be managed, not endured.
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