The Italian minister for agriculture Teresa Bellanova said an inter-ministerial plan will be presented next month to fight labor exploitation in the agriculture sector. She said it would include a platform allowing business owners to find the workers with the desired qualifications.
The Italian ministries of agriculture, labor and the interior have joined forces to create an inter-ministerial plan to fight labor exploitation in the agriculture sector, known as caporalato.
In an interview with RAI Radio 1, Italian Agriculture Minister Teresa Bellanova said the plan will be presented and will include "a platform where business owners can find the workers they need, with the necessary qualifications, when they need them."
"We are calling on the regions to work together with the ministries to adopt transport plans to ensure the freedom of the business," she said. In regards to housing, Bellanova said she received phone calls every day from businesses asking for a "legal flow of manpower from abroad to harvest their products."
"We have to move from the phase in which we use them as workers to one in which we take them into consideration and respect them as citizens," Bellanova said.
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