The Constitutional Court on
Friday explained why it recently OK'd a union-sponsored
referendum on Italy's widely abused system of using vouchers to
pay for occasional work.
In the regulations on the voucher system, "there is no
reference to the occasional nature of the work as a
requirement", it said in its 'motivation' for its upholding of a
referendum proposed by the trade union federation CGIL.
Trade unions have blasted the vouchers, saying they are being
widely abused, with some employers using them to pay employees
who are actually working regularly and often full time.
Italy's labour ministry said last March that about 1.4
million people were paid with vouchers in 2015.
About 7.9% of voucher receivers were working with the same
company in the three months preceding the use of the vouchers, a
report issued by the ministry at that time found.
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