The Milan Public Prosecutor's Office
said Wednesday that a series of recent operations targetting
alleged labour exploitation, often via outsourcing, has reaped
550 million euros in tax revenues so far and led 49,000 workers
to be given permanent labour contracts.
The figures were contained in the order for the latest operation
- the seizure of 33 million euros from Lombardy supermarket
chain Iperal Supermarkets and logistics company Kuehne+Nagel.
Like several others, this case regards the allegedly
exploitation of so called 'labour reservoirs', a system under
which large companies illegally subcontract out services to
other firms and cooperatives in order to get labour at
rock-bottom rates and and pay less tax and fewer social-security
contributions.
Other companies to have been targetted by Milan prosecutors
include the Esselunga supermarket chain and Italian branches of
Amazon, Uber Eats and multinational logistics company GXO.
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