Labour Minister Giuliano Poletti
said Wednesday Italy's widely abused system of vouchers for
occasional work had to be "changes so as to drastically limit
their use".
"I think they should be used by families for small works and
not by firms, which have labour contracts," he said.
The government is looking to change the voucher system to
hopefully avert a union-sponsored referendum on scrapping them.
Vouchers are being widely abused to pay for long-term and
sometimes steady jobs instead of the occasional work they were
meant to pay for.
Also Wednesday, Poletti said inspectors from the ministry,
the social security institute INPS and the workers'
compensation authority INAIL last year found irregularities in
63% of the over 191,000 firms checked for compliance.
He noted that some 186,027 irregular workers had been found,
of whom 62,106 were paid entirely under the table.
Over 1.1 billion in unpaid taxes were discovered.
The government has launched a crackdown to make sure that
companies are respecting the rules.
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