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February, Reggio Calabria. The man who presents himself at the De Blasi Clinical Institute is elegant, professional: gray tie and suit, educated in his manners. And politely ask: Do you need help? Tell me, in what sense?, Responds the director, Eduardo Lamberti.
I’m willing to do anything: small bookkeeping, handyman, post office deliveries. How much you can give me
You must speak to the administrative office.
I’ll be honest: I take income from citizenship. But I would like to keep it by giving you the opportunity to use my services at minimal cost and without labor restrictions.
Sorry, we bill everything here.
Today in the province of Reggio Calabria, one in ten inhabitants lives in a family that receives citizenship income checks. For some, the check became a double active. You do not take income because you are unemployed, but you are looking for a job (black) because you take income: and therefore you can put yourself on the market at half price. With an added bonus for casual entrepreneurs, as Lamberti explains (The one with similar offers says he has rejected dozens of them): For the dishonest, a blessing, you can fire the employee without legal protection at any time. Citizens’ income becomes a … business investment. But in my opinion a gigantic instigation to commit a crime, concludes the seventy-year-old Calabrian doctor, once a local police councilor in the council of Italo Falcomat, the mayor-myth of Reggio’s spring. However, in Italy there is no shortage of those who would be happy to work with a good contract in order.
Since the start of the closure at the end of July, Istat has officially counted 585 thousand fewer seats. Among those still employed, layoff hours have increased tenfold compared to a year ago to reach levels almost three times higher than previously recorded (in 2010). Along with Covid-19, Italy is experiencing a second epidemic, due to lack of work. The employment rate remains the lowest in the European Union after Portugal and Bulgaria. In the months of the coronavirus, poverty has only advanced and public policies have responded with the means they had. Since January, the population of citizens involved in citizen revenues, as the INPS calls them, to describe beneficiary families, has expanded by 600,000 heads, to more than three million. Of these, just over a million adults must accept a position, no later than the third offer.
But Italy is also the country of paradoxes. Because Alberto Man, president of the Jesolo Hoteliers Association, found himself the target of a hate campaign on social media one August morning. Improper Hundreds: Learn How To Hire Italians Instead Of Foreigners; dear masters, slavery ended long ago; the working conditions in your hotels have worsened exponentially and do you blame the income of the citizens? They called him of all colors, to the point of making him fear a physical attack.
His fault? Having put pencil on paper in a statement which many of his colleagues only said in private. It is difficult to find staff. Many come to do the interview and then tell us that they prefer to stay home, covered by citizenship income, bonuses or other forms of support. Male this summer estimated a 30% shortage of professional figures in his sector in Jesolo. The problem can be attributed in part to a kind of wellness culture that is being created – He denounced -. We pay potential workers to stay home. The whole hospitality world in Italy suffers from it, even in this year of lean cows. LavoroTurismo, the largest labor platform in the sector and Oscar Galeazzi, its patron, admits: In the last few months I have spoken with many potential employees who have refused because of the income of citizenship.
Not that it is an instrument of immoderate generosity. The average monthly amount per capita is now € 561, at a cost of € 7.8 billion per year (if August levels are confirmed). Launched by the first Conte government, the measure was again absorbed by the political dispute recently. Tito Boeri and Pasquale Tridico clashed when the former INPS president said on television that half of the three million people who receive the subsidy could be tax evaders and the current president accused him of making talk about the bar; Then, the news that the relatives of the alleged murderers of Willy Monteiro Duarte perceived the support of the State, while at the same time showing absolute well-being in the images of social networks.
The truth is that there is a big gray area around to this flag of the Five Stars. Not so much because of its need in the fight against hardship, which is more than real, especially in the Covid-19 era, but rather because of its connection with the world of work and related active policies, which would also have been a constitutive part of the same. The fact that the Guardia di Finanza found 101 ‘Ndranghetisti between Gioia Tauro, Aspromonte and Reggino who received the contribution does not mean that the vast majority of the million and 300,000 beneficiary families really need it. So much so that this subsidy quickly achieved a kind of bipartisan cultural hegemony.
No work, very strong clientelism, politics has always satisfied the minimum and immediate needs of the people. So I think that at this point we can no longer go back to the income of the citizens, here the revolution would happen, says Daniela De Blasio, who in the last municipality of Reggio Calabria ranked eighth on the Forza Italia lists with 722 votes: When give something, take it away. here very difficult. Even more drastic is Aldo Cerqua, a canteen entrepreneur in the province of Caserta where 13% of the population benefits from support. I have no work to give – Cerqua cuts short – Luckily there is the citizen’s income, because it has taken hunger out of the houses.
However, in eighteen months of existence, the program shows all the flaws related to the hasty and naive way it was built: an incitement to illegal work, to receive subsidy and pay under the table at the same time, and also an incitement to scams. The case of the brothers accused of killing Willy is too sensational to be isolated. However, the check was revoked in Italy only for 8,200 of the 1,300,000 beneficiary families. The controls (often non-draconian) revealed cases in which the request had even been made by inmates, directly from prison (158 in Sardinia, with 548 thousand euros revoked, 30 in San Severo nel Foggiano, for 200 thousand euros).
Thus, a project conceived to abolish the risks of poverty to destroy wealth and produce resentment and injustice, if not rethink. An architect from Posillipina who, understandably, prefers anonymity, argues that in Naples the works on the works are almost all done in black or with minimal invoice, from plaster to painting. Workers take the income of citizenship as a pension, put it aside for a future they fear. And it is very difficult for entrepreneurs to find workers in another way: at 800 euros, they stay at home. And not only in the south. In Milan, the Agency for Vocational Training and Guidance (Afol) has launched a project aimed at a small group of grant beneficiaries, for training as a mechanic, counter operator and logistics employee, with the possibility of entering companies. partner: Among family reasons, depressions and last-minute absences, of a hundred selected, only half was reduced to thirty volunteers.
In Mondragone, in Campania, things got worse to a small agricultural entrepreneur, Gennaro Bianchini, when it was time to harvest vegetables in the spring. Eastern European workers disappeared due to Covid, Bianchini called seven or eight villagers. They all refused because of the subsidy, he says, and it doesn’t matter that it is now possible to work in the fields for 60 days without losing the right.. above that they are left to rot in the fields green beans for 14 thousand euros. They are not exactly trifles: a fifth of your company’s annual turnover. Bianchini says: exactly the money I needed to make investments.
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