Work and foreigners, the government sees the unions to reform the flow orders. CGIL and UIL: “But they don’t want to touch Bossi-Fini”

Few lights and many shadows from today’s table, at Palazzo Chigibringing together the Under-Secretary of the Presidency of the Council, Alfredo Mantovanoand representatives from Cisl, Cgil, Uil, Ugl, Usb, Confsal, Cisal and Confimpresa. Why, he said Giorgia Meloni at the beginning of summer, “the streaming commands don’t work. Indeed, they are in the hands of crime.” The prime minister followed these words with a show up to the national anti-mafia prosecutor on the false claims of seasonal agricultural workers, and the commitment to review the current legislation governing flow orders. There are two government strategies. The fight crime through the verification of employers who submit applications for the recruitment of workers. And reform the click daywith the increase in the deadlines available to companies to avoid the effects of the lottery and the long bureaucracy forcing companies to give up and not hire those who have now arrived Italy. “Good intentions but enough both to satisfy the demands of companies and to protect foreign workers”, reflected some of the trade union representatives present. Regarding the Bossi-Finithe law which for more than 20 years has forced the employer to recognize the worker when he is still in his country, CGIL and UIL they clarify the hypothetical area of ​​reform: “In the meeting it became clear that proposals regarding changes to Bossi-Fini are not considered useful topics for discussion, on the contrary”.

“It is believed that the flow orders – which Mantovano said at the meeting – were used as a way to enter Italy, through a formal legal route, to people who had no right to itperhaps when sums of money are paid. There is confirmation in the ongoing studies, which bring this fact to light.” The hypothesis of criminal infiltration, he continued, “seems to be supported by the view that the majority of foreigners who entered Italy in recent years using the flow order coming from one state, the Bangladeshin connection with which the diplomatic authorities have suggested that there are serious phenomena regarding the purchase and sale of visas for work purposes”. Specifies that “Bangladesh is at the same time the country from which the majority of irregular entries come until 20 September 2024. This assumes that there is a connection between groups present in the State leave and in the State they came from.” One “success” which the government intends to oppose. “The aspects that should be intervened – Mantovano’s summary – are those of verifying applications for work permits, the click day mechanism, the definition of quotas, the strengthening of specific access routes and in general cooperation with associations social and commercial parties. to define manpower requirements”.

While appreciating a debate that has been put off for too long, there are those who have pointed out that “maintaining” the flow orders is not very useful unless it is part of a “method- wider work regarding migration policies”, agreed. CGIL confederation secretary, Maria Grazia Gabrielli and Secretary of the Commonwealth of Nations, Holy Flowerboth appear around. On the other hand, “it was clarified that there is no need to open other discussion fronts, inviting everyone to focus on a system of flow orders to remove the problematic elements, without to cross the subject with anything else, under penalty of not taking custody. the opportunity”, Gabrielli explained to him Done. “What the government has reported on crime is certainly bad, but the real problem is elsewhere,” warns Biondo. “The way that supply and demand have to meet “in the dark” has not worked. .And the public administration has never been able to share the level of work that comes from each flow order. That is in the waiting of the bureaucracy the need for many companies is disappearing the recruitment does not end, generating a foreign presence that then ends in irregularity and we may find ourselves in construction sites such as a construction siteEsselunga of Florence“. Against this, he said, “the multiplication of click days is the maximum of maintenance, but it will certainly not be able to respond to the real demand for work from companies, which is already much greater than the quotas calculated by the latest government order. for the three-year period 2023 -2025, or the protection of foreign workers from undeclared work and gang mastery”.

“In the meantime, we cannot pretend that we do not know that irregular workers are already here,” said the secretary of the CGIL Gabrielli, who wants a system of irregular workers regular. out-of-quota regularity “to allow many workers to appear, guaranteeing them a residence permit”. “A a motivational toolwhich gives a view to irregular foreign workers who want to appear”, said Biondo, who shares the need to use permits to wait for employment, possibly including the institution of the name is called trusteethe one who introduced law Turkish Napolitano which would allow a company or association to guarantee, even economically, those who are looking for work and until they return. And then an emergency tool on an individual basis, always accessible, which allows those who are still without documents to comply with the availability of an employment contract. “But we cannot assume that we will reach a regular entry system for work with the current immigration policy,” said Gabrielli. “Pragmatism is needed – Biondo echoes it -, but certain propaganda must be set aside, allowing employers to be able to recruit regularly. at any time of the year“. Uil himself has proposed, with good attention from the government, the revival of the Territorial councils for immigration at the prefectures, “as required by law since 1998, so that we start again from the data and the real needs that only the provinces can express and take pictures”.