https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Italy's co-deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio has apologised following revelations that his father's construction company employed staff off the books. https://www.thelocal.it/20181126/di-maio-father-le-iene-work-contracts Mon, 26 Nov 2018 11:00:00 +0100 di-maio-father-le-iene-work-contracts Closing factories and cutting jobs can constitute a "very serious sin", Pope Francis said on Wednesday in his latest broadside in defence of labour rights. https://www.thelocal.it/20170316/cutting-jobs-is-a-very-serious-sin-says-pope Thu, 16 Mar 2017 09:34:03 +0100 cutting-jobs-is-a-very-serious-sin-says-pope Over 500,000 new jobs were created in the third quarter of this year compared to the previous year, according to figures released on Wednesday by Italy's labour ministry. https://www.thelocal.it/20161228/over-half-a-million-jobs-created-in-q3 Wed, 28 Dec 2016 13:30:12 +0100 over-half-a-million-jobs-created-in-q3 Italy is preparing to tighten the law against time clock cheats after a series of stings which found people clocking-in for friends and a traffic cop punching-in in his underpants. https://www.thelocal.it/20160119/time-up-for-public-sector-shirkers-as-italy-declares-crackdown Tue, 19 Jan 2016 09:18:03 +0100 time-up-for-public-sector-shirkers-as-italy-declares-crackdown The owner of a leather factory in the Lombardy region has been charged with exploiting child labour after an eight-year-old boy was found working on the premises. https://www.thelocal.it/20150911/boy-8-found-working-in-italy-factory Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:19:53 +0200 boy-8-found-working-in-italy-factory Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi won a confidence vote in parliament on Wednesday, giving him the go-ahead to press on with a shake-up of the country's labour market. https://www.thelocal.it/20141204/renzi-wins-confidence-vote-on-job-market-overhaul Thu, 04 Dec 2014 09:14:00 +0100 renzi-wins-confidence-vote-on-job-market-overhaul Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi is pressing on with moves to make it easier for companies to hire and fire. But even supporters say the reforms are too modest - while sceptics claim that Italy can never be reformed. https://www.thelocal.it/20141202/italy-labour-reforms-sceptics-renzi Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:56:00 +0100 italy-labour-reforms-sceptics-renzi There were tensions in Brescia on Monday morning as an estimated 300 protesters gathered outside a building in the northern Italian city where Prime Minister Matteo Renzi gave a speech to local business people about his planned reforms. https://www.thelocal.it/20141103/protests-in-brescia-as-renzi-defends-labour-reforms Mon, 03 Nov 2014 13:01:00 +0100 protests-in-brescia-as-renzi-defends-labour-reforms Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi defended his job reform plans on Sunday, comparing naysayers to grumpy pensioners, a day after a mass protest in Rome against the measures. https://www.thelocal.it/20141027/renzi-compares-reform-critics-to-grumpy-pensioners Mon, 27 Oct 2014 09:00:00 +0100 renzi-compares-reform-critics-to-grumpy-pensioners The Italian Senate was transformed into a battlefield ahead of a confidence vote on controversial labour reforms on Wednesday night, with politicians shouting, fighting and standing on tables in protest. https://www.thelocal.it/20141009/italys-senators-squabble-ahead-of-reforms-vote Thu, 09 Oct 2014 11:19:00 +0200 italys-senators-squabble-ahead-of-reforms-vote Deep divisions within the European Union over the rules governing the euro will be aired once more at an emergency jobs summit here on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20141008/italy-uses-eu-summit-to-showcase-jobs-plan Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:49:25 +0200 italy-uses-eu-summit-to-showcase-jobs-plan Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s controversial labour reforms will be painful in the short-term but will eventually boost jobs, especially for young people in Italy, an economist told The Local. https://www.thelocal.it/20140930/italys-labour-reforms-will-boost-youth-employment Tue, 30 Sep 2014 15:42:00 +0200 italys-labour-reforms-will-boost-youth-employment Italy's government must overhaul its labour market to kick-start its economy, which is set to shrink for the third year running in 2014, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140919/italy-must-overhaul-its-job-market-imf Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:53:00 +0200 italy-must-overhaul-its-job-market-imf Thousands of Jews were imprisoned at the Ferramonti di Tarsia concentration camp in Calabria during the Second World War. But as one survivor tells The Local, it was not like other terror camps in Europe. https://www.thelocal.it/20131007/ferramonti-was-not-a-death-camp Mon, 07 Oct 2013 16:34:00 +0200 ferramonti-was-not-a-death-camp Fiat, Italy's biggest employer, has said it would pull out of Italy unless the government revamps labour relations laws. https://www.thelocal.it/20130902/fiat-threatens-to-leave-italy-over-labour-row Mon, 02 Sep 2013 19:56:00 +0200 fiat-threatens-to-leave-italy-over-labour-row