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Articoli Correlati: personal responsibility of managers
The principle that only where there is deliberately unlawful action to the obvious detriment of the employer arises the responsibility of the directors was established in the ruling “Antuzis against DJ Houghton Catching Services Limited” of end of April 2019.
The case concerned a group of Lithuanian citizens who claimed to have suffered serious abuses by the DJHCS, in terms of excessive working hours, illicit deductions, non-payment of holidays and minimum wages and other contractual aspects. Their schedules were falsified to reduce the number of hours worked, sometimes they were not paid and allusion to physical intimidation. They worked in conditions that the High Court considered to be “exhausting and exploitative.