The downside bet on foreigners' work: heavy and dangerous, so is the incidence of injuries and deaths

MILAN – Difficult life for foreigners working in Italy. Certainly more risky than the Italian citizens.It is one of the figures that emerge from the substantial CNEL report on the labor market presented this morning and now in its twenty-first edition. A chapter of the text relates the migration phenomenon to the needs of the labor market. To date in Italy, one in ten workers are immigrants: there are 2.45 million foreigners at work, equal to 10.6% of total employment.
Although the crisis has not spared anyone, the experts reflect on the causes that can explain the coexistence of such a high level of employment of immigrants in the presence of high levels of internal unemployment. "The most widespread type of immigrant employment, manual and poorly qualified, concerns activities that cannot be transferred to countries with the lowest labor costs (construction, personal services), and which are therefore exposed to the tendency to compress costs in the field local, for example through outsourcing and subcontracting operations, savings in technological investments and in security measures, reduction of protection for workers ".Here then is that a lower bet is placed on immigrants, with independent work serving as the main alternative to the disqualifying occupations characterized by the "five P's" (heavy, dangerous, precarious, poorly paid, socially penalized), "of which the unfortunately the Italian labor market still abounds ". A situation that is also reflected in the data on accidents: 16.3% of the total in 2018 and 17% of fatal accidents, against an incidence of immigrant employment on the total equal to 10.6 per cent.

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