L’AQUILA – “Italy must activate all the tools available against the scourge of undeclared work, which especially afflicts the South. The recent study by the CGIA of Mestre has highlighted merciless numbers that cannot leave us indifferent because they have devastating effects on workers, businesses and the entire economy of the nation, primarily on the pension system”. Thus Eliseo Iannini, Forza Italia candidate in the European elections in the Southern constituency on 8 and 9 June, on the job emergency for which he cites the study by the CGIA of Mestre, drawn up on ISTAT 2021 data, the latest available.
Iannini, an architect and entrepreneur from L’Aquila, asks that “the Labor Inspectorates be strengthened in order to make action in the area effective and constant and that dissuasive tools, including European ones, be activated, because the most vulnerable fall into the network of undeclared work , often immigrants.”
On the Cgia study, Iannini underlines: “Compared to a national average of 11.3%, already high in itself, the South stands at 15.6%. It’s unacceptable. In the Southern constituency, the one in which I ran, renouncing the leadership of the entrepreneurial group I created, entrusting it to my children, we are well above the alert level: Calabria 19.6%, Campania 16.5%, Puglia 14.4% , Molise 14.2%, Basilicata 13.3% and Abruzzo 12.8%. Over 700 thousand people in Southern Italy, excluding the islands, work, more or less permanently, without having adequate coverage and without taxes being paid for their work. For the country system it is an enormous damage lasting over time. The Labor Inspectorate, the Carabinieri, the Financial Police, the trade unions and other forces in the field have always made a great effort to combat undeclared work but, evidently, there is a need, especially in the regions most affected by the phenomenon, of a decisive strengthening of the workforce and greater resources. More severe laws would also be needed”, concludes Iannini. “Let’s not forget, and here I speak as an entrepreneur, that the ‘black market’ is also a form of unfair competition because on the market serious companies, which bear the costs of regular hiring, face off against scoundrel companies which, by paying less or nothing, acquire a strong competitive advantage”.
