As the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera writes, 49 workers in the historical Vatican Museums have complained that their working conditions are problematic and in a letter they signed, they demand their immediate improvement.
The workers in question are all security guards, except for a conservator and a worker in the Museums’ internal bookstore. According to the Milan newspaper, in a letter to Cardinal Fernando Verguez Alzaga, head of the Vatican’s “local government”, they are asking for a change in their working conditions, adding that, otherwise, they are going to go to court.
In particular, the forty-nine out of a total of seven hundred employees of the “Musei Vaticani” underline that in case of illness, they are obliged to stay at home all day, waiting for a visit from the employer’s doctor, that their overtime is paid less than normal working hours, that they are not there are fixed rules for their raises and professional career and that any employee who has a disabled person in his family does not enjoy any kind of support.
The group of employees of the Museums of the Holy See, finally, adds that there is no unemployment fund or other forms of emergency income support and that, despite the fact that visitors to the Museums rooms exceed 35,000 per day, there is no allowance for the health worker risk to which workers are constantly exposed.
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