It happens that you want to become aware of the issues of the world of work in a circular way, in the sense that decisions are made on the entire system. To protect it, hopefully. What is happening with workplace safety, with the methods of carrying out tasks, with working times and conditions, including environmental ones, is something that should qualify Italy. If it weren't for the high number of deaths and accidents, an intolerable massacre, as the President defines it Sergio Mattarella. The death of Satnam Singh in the Latina countryside a few weeks ago brought the unions and the government back into conflict in the attempt to have a program accepted by all on prevention and control systems.
The credit license like a roulette
In a meeting yesterday, the government presented the credit-based driving license decree, which is an updated version of a previous provision that was never implemented. The new license should come into force on October 1st with a mechanism that is triggered in the event of accidents. Like a roulette wheel that spins, according to the circumstances. It takes a lot of audacity to think something like this. Government unions are discussing this while the country is stunned. Participate in demonstrations against gangmastering and terrible working conditions which humiliate even thousands of honest entrepreneurs. In the fields at shocking temperatures the Ministry Francesco Lollobrigida he practices the distinctions between good and rogue farmers. At the government table we are discussing initial credits to be discounted and possible suspensions of activity. Who and when goes to the countryside where immigrants work under the 38-40 degree sun? Can or should the harvest of agricultural products be organized with pre-established, controlled times and times? It is not that conditions inside or outside the work environment should be a requirement regardless of every good entrepreneur? Why doesn't the government move from declarations to real actions for once? These are questions we ask ourselves at every funeral.
Disturbing data
“The first measure to be envisaged to make the license effective is the qualification of companies at the entranceso, a measure that is not foreseen,” he says Frances King David of the CGIL Secretariat. At this rate, the effects on job security will be seen in years. For now we all sadly hold on to Eurostat's latest analysis. It established that France is the European state with the most deaths at work in relation to the population, while Italy is in 12th place among the 27. It is the infamous fate of the rankings. In the first quarter of 2024 in Italy there were 191 reports of deaths at work (20% in construction) and a thousand in 2023. Is being on scaffolding in the heat or on a road construction site at +38 still tolerable? There are opinions from occupational doctors, complaints and documents that they put together work and climatic conditions. Who intervenes? For now they are bad debts.
