Twenty-six companies employing 126 undeclared workers have been suspended. This is the outcome of new inspections in manufacturing companies run by foreign entrepreneurs as part of the A.L.T. Caporalato D.U.E. project funded by the European Union with the involvement of labor inspectors, Carabinieri and IOM cultural mediators. The inspections took place in two different periods, in March and May, particularly in the areas of North Naples and the Vesuvius area in 31 companies run mainly by owners of Bengali nationality, of which only one was found to be regular. In detail: out of a total of 346 workers employed in the production units, predominantly Bengali, 179 were illegal, including 126 completely illegal and 59 without residence permits: for the latter, the judicial authorities were informed, while investigations are still ongoing to identify the possible hypothesis of illegal recruitment. Numerous violations were also found regarding working hours and violations, including serious ones, regarding safety at work: some factories were even seized. In 26 out of 31 companies - accounting for 83 percent - business activity was suspended, in four cases for exceeding the 10 percent undeclared work threshold, in the remaining 22 for serious safety violations. In all cases, the suspended businesses will be allowed to resume operations only after regularizing the undeclared labor positions, as well as restoring safety conditions.
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