workers rights

• Italy

An app has been launched in Italy's southeastern city of Foggia for agricultural workers in rural areas nearby to reserve a place on a free bus. It will also help to counter labor exploitation.

• Italy

On 26 July, Italian authorities carried out an operation against the illegal hiring of foreign workers at Grafica Veneta, a leading company in the printing of books and publications in Italy. Nine Pakistani citizens were arrested on charges of exploitation of fellow workers, along with two managers of the company.

• France

Undocumented workers who are victims of work-related accidents must take steps to ensure that they are taken care of and obtain compensation if required. InfoMigrants explains the necessary steps.

• Italy

A new report has denounced the labor conditions for migrant agriculture workers on the Gioia Tauro plain in southern Calabria. The report is published by the Italian organization Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU).

• Italy

Police have arrested a couple that allegedly exploited workers at a leather processing company in central Italy. Chinese, Pakistani and Bangladeshi migrants reportedly had to work 14 hours per day without breaks, for just over three euros per hour.

• Italy

Italian agricultural organization Coldiretti said the region of Apulia, in southern Italy, has been assigned 320 additional non-EU laborers for farm work in the region, which is in serious difficulty due to the coronavirus pandemic.

• Italy

Three people have been served house arrest warrants and a residency ban in the town of Prato, Tuscany. They allegedly exploited dozens of migrant workers.

• Italy

The farmhands' union Ubs in Calabria has denounced yet another road accident involving a migrant worker. The Union stressed that that the security of foreign workers is not safeguarded.

• Italy

Police have arrested eight people and seized over €900,000 in assets in northwestern Italy. The suspects are accused of exploiting migrants workers building luxury yachts. Dozens of Bangladeshi workers were allegedly threatened, beaten, insulted and underpaid.

• Italy

Three associations in Italy have called on authorities to hire foreign doctors and nurses with regular Italian work permits. The associations argued it's illegitimate to exclude foreign doctors from civil service exams during the coronavirus pandemic.

• Italy

Three unions in the Italian city of Catania have set up two hotlines to report cases of exploitation of day laborers and gangmastering. Many farmworkers in the region are migrants.

• Italy

Since a new decree went into effect in Italy this summer, 220,000 migrants have applied to get temporary papers, according to Deputy Interior Minister Matteo Mauri. Meanwhile, he also said that the exploitation of undocumented farmworkers in the Foggia region had to be stopped.