Milan, 7 June (LaPresse) – "We have already strengthened the National Labour Inspectorate (INL) and the Carabinieri’s Labour Inspection Units (NIL), deploying targeted reinforcements to the areas most at risk. Throughout the summer, ordinary checks will be supplemented by extraordinary surveillance in the agricultural sector. We are using the best technologies, including drones. In 2025, we carried out over 10,000 inspections in Calabria and Basilicata, and we will repeat the same number in 2026. Among other tools already in use, we can count on the multi-agency ‘Alt Caporalato’ project, which employs cultural mediators to raise awareness of the rights of those working legally in Italy and to identify exploitation wherever it lurks, often within ‘closed’ foreign communities or in the day-to-day management of employment relationships, sometimes even behind a façade of legality." So said Labour Minister Marina Calderone to Corriere della Sera. On the tragedy in Amendolara, she said: “These are images of unprecedented gravity, which demand a firm response from the State: we must be relentless towards those who commit such heinous crimes. Our primary task, together with all departments of the Ministry of Labour and regional and local authorities, is to pay the utmost attention and assist the judiciary in establishing the facts. The summit in Reggio Calabria sends a clear signal: the State is here."
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