“They worked ten a day, for less than 4 euros an hour, even at night. Without weekly rest, no health coverage, without accident prevention and safety devices. And under the constant threat of dismissal.
It is only the announced chronicle of the latest abuse on the skin of Italian and foreign laborers in the province of Latina, by two agricultural companies, whose owners have been arrested. If on the one hand the applause to the police and the judiciary, always careful in pursuing these illicit behaviors confirming the necessity and goodness of the fight against the hired workers, on the other it appears increasingly clear as a regularization of the workforce it is an issue that cannot and should not be further postponed. In times of pandemic, ideological clashes and superficiality cannot be allowed on a theme, that of hiring and undeclared work in the countryside, which risks transforming from one moment to another into a further health and economic emergency. Regularizing irregular work means restoring dignity to workers, limiting the risk of infection, saving the next collections. That otherwise remain at risk. And it means protecting and supporting the thousands and thousands of healthy farms that undergo such unfair competition and enormous damage, even in their reputation on world markets. Protecting these companies is a priority just like job protection. There is no longer a single minute to lose. "
So Minister Teresa Bellanova comments on the anticaporated operation conducted today in Lazio.