Padua, 4 July (LaPresse) – Workplace safety is the “priority”. This was emphasised by the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, upon her arrival at the 19th UIL National Congress at the Padua Exhibition Centre, citing the figure of 1,093 workplace deaths in 2025. It is “a genuine emergency, but one that is structural”. According to Schlein, “we need to do much more in terms of prevention, holding companies to account, and new technologies that can make workplaces safer”. “We must combat the logic of cascading subcontracting that the government has, unfortunately, included in the Public Procurement Code, because we all know that at the end of that long chain of contracts, work becomes less safe, workers are more vulnerable to blackmail, and it is also more difficult to carry out checks to prevent the infiltration of organised crime”, she pointed out. “Everything compels us to fight in the opposite direction – to make work safer – because we are a Republic founded on work, as Article 1 of our Constitution states; it cannot be founded on low-paid work, it cannot be founded on precarious work, nor, for that matter, on redundancy schemes or insecure employment. Naturally, we call on the government and the Prime Minister to at least try, on this issue, to send out a joint signal. Unfortunately, so far there has been no willingness to engage in discussion and dialogue. We will continue to press for these measures – which are absolutely essential – in Parliament as well,” added Schlein.
Employment, Schlein: “This is a safety emergency; the Government shows no willingness to engage in dialogue”
Padua, 4 July (LaPresse) – Workplace safety is the “priority”. This was emphasised by the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, upon her arrival at the 19th UIL National Congress at the Padua Exhibition Centre, citing the figure of 1,093 workplace deaths in 2025. It is “a genuine emergency, but one that is structural”. According to Schlein, “we need to do much more in terms of prevention, holding companies to account, and new technologies that can make workplaces safer”. “We must combat the logic of cascading subcontracting that the government has, unfortunately, included in the Public Procurement Code, because we all know that at the end of that long chain of contracts, work becomes less safe, workers are more vulnerable to blackmail, and it is also more difficult to carry out checks to prevent the infiltration of organised crime”, she pointed out. “Everything compels us to fight in the opposite direction – to make work safer – because we are a Republic founded on work, as Article 1 of our Constitution states; it cannot be founded on low-paid work, it cannot be founded on precarious work, nor, for that matter, on redundancy schemes or insecure employment. Naturally, we call on the government and the Prime Minister to at least try, on this issue, to send out a joint signal. Unfortunately, so far there has been no willingness to engage in discussion and dialogue. We will continue to press for these measures – which are absolutely essential – in Parliament as well,” added Schlein.
