Italy: Companies plan to hire more migrant workers

Rome: A total of 40 per cent of workers to hire are missing in Italy, while the labour shortages in this country are not being filled by Italians after they are not enough, according to the recent report provided by Espresso.

The same report shows that there is a lack of carpenters, caregivers as well as electricians, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.

In the recent survey conducted by the latest Excelsior Unioncamere, entrepreneurs in Italy aim to hire 1.3 million people by October; however, they already know that they will find it difficult to find 41.6 per cent of the staff sought.

It has also been reported that the lack of a total of 87 thousand shop assistants as well as waiters, 10 thousand bricklayers, and 28 thousand messengers as well as 26 thousand cleaners weighs heavily.

In order to fill in the gaps registered in many sectors in this country, authorities in Italy are attempting to bring to the country a large number of migrants in order to live and work there.

According to a recent report provided by the Italian Agriculture association Coldiretti, known as “Immigrants and Agriculture in the Tuscany Region,” a total of 53 per cent of agricultural firms in Tuscany employ migrant workers.

The same report also brought to light the fact that the high demand for flexibility of immigrants, as well as the demand for labour power towards them, also surged.

Previously the highest court of Italy ruled that migrants to Italy do not need to obtain a permanent work contract to be granted a stay permit for humanitarian reasons.

The court stressed that all that migrants need when applying for a humanitarian stay permit is to have learned the Italian language and to be employed.

According to the court, the conditions mentioned above are enough for migrants to be able to prove they will be integrated into Italian society.

At present, there is a large number of Italians in Italy. According to a report of Euromed, since the beginning of this year, a total of 70,225 people disembarked in Italy, of 11 per cent unaccompanied minors. The same report shows that 369 migrants were rescued by the Italian Coast Guard, and Frontex was disembarked in different areas in Sicilian ports; 230 in Pozzallo, 77 in Portopalo, as well as 62 in Catania.

However, recently migrants expressed their concerns over Italy’s new far-right Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni after she stressed that she would tighten the system for asylum seekers in order to halt illegal migration.