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Caltanissetta, gangmastering and illegal work: 10 arrests

No personal protective equipment, forced to work even on Sundays

Caltanissetta, gangmastering and illegal work: 10 arrests.

On Friday morning the Caltanissetta State Police arrested 10 people seriously suspected of belonging to a gang that recruited foreign labor (largely of Moroccan nationality) to be assigned to work in the countryside of Caltanissetta in exploitative conditions.

The investigations have made it possible to acquire a serious circumstantial framework also against some landowners and agricultural entrepreneurs in the province of Nisse and Agrigento for the crime of “illicit intermediation and exploitation of labour”. The suspects in question would have used, hired or employed the foreign workforce recruited by the alleged criminal organization, repeatedly subjecting them to working conditions detrimental to dignity, safety and health, taking advantage of the state of need in which the workers find themselves. In particular, two precautionary sentences in prison and eight under house arrest were applied.

During the Digos investigations it emerged that the foreigners recruited would have perceived for an average of 8/9 hours of daily work a salary of around 30/35 euros, further reduced by approximately 5/10 euros for the "daily taxes" that would have been imposed by the gang's drivers for the costs of transporting workers to the farms and for the maintenance of the vehicles used to carry out the activity.  

No personal protective equipment, forced to work even on Sundays, monitored during the day by the head of the organization, with the threat of no longer being employed if they did not "properly" carry out the work assigned to them from time to time.

There are several recorded episodes in which some workers, despite having expressed discomfort or pressing family needs during the working day, were forced to remain at the workplace until the end of the day and resume their activity, under penalty of losing any future opportunity. working.

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