Tourism Minister Daniela Santanché is offering to pay more young people who work weekends to agree to work in the tourism industry. And so, following the proposal to lower tip taxes, the head of the department in charge returns to propose measures in a desperate attempt to persuade young people to work in the tourism industry. It is regrettable that Santanché has ignored the real reasons that have driven many and fewer youth to leave the tourism arena in recent years, and has not had a word to comment on this as a competent minister during these months. a lot of research showing what job and salary conditions are recommended by many restaurateurs, hoteliers and bath owners, in defiance of the national collective agreement they must provide. And let alone the fact that if they don’t comply with the current CCNL they will so reluctantly implement further increases in addition to those already anticipated and often overlooked.

The Minister should know, or at least hear, that there are many entrepreneurs in the industry trying to offer high salaries of 800/1,000 euros per month all-inclusive to work more than 10 hours a day without rest. summer season There is no additional charge for overtime, night and holiday work. These offers are fixed, no exceptions. It’s easy to come across such offers: as my colleague Chiara Tadini has repeatedly shown in her surveys on the Riviera Romagnola and other tourist destinations in the South, simply send your CV in response to many advertisements to find out the conditions. As I have shown for months, every day, in the light of the sun, by restarting the completely unregulated offers posted by many traders on the Web.

Contracts are always irregular

You don’t need Sherlock Holmes to find some elements that can easily explain why tens of thousands of workers have been missing in the tourism industry over the years. It will be enough to listen to the testimonies of tens of thousands of former restaurant, hotel and beach workers who have decided to leave the tourism area because they are tired of having to submit to completely irregular conditions.

Every summer, especially in mid-August, the Inl (National Labor Inspectorate) conducts extensive inspections at the most famous and well-beaten tourist destinations in the trunk. And you know what the results are? Not to mention undeclared work or bogus part-time contracts, including thousands of fines, denied rest periods, and dozens of hours, often unpaid overtime, imposed for irregularities in terms of enforcing the National Collective Bargaining Agreement and job security. in reality, they hide more than just full-time services that are not properly paid for. This is also the case in one of the sectors that appears to be among the three sectors with the highest incidence of irregular work, according to the National Labor Inspectorate.

However, no member of the Government, including Minister Santanché, mentions it. No corporate comment has come from Palazzo Chigi in recent months, in response to multiple inquiries that indicate an alarming situation and attempt to mitigate complaints from industry entrepreneurs who militarily occupy newspapers and television daily. inexplicably unable to find staff for their facilities. Not an examination of conscience, not to mention the huge elephant in the room that everyone pretends not to see in the hope that it will one day be lost in general apathy. No, it’s much easier to attack the usual sluggish youngsters who prefer to have fun rather than work in tourism on weekends and public holidays, and suggest solutions that no one will resort to. You know what? They’re doing great.