Vincenzo Moldavia, a 73 -year -old retiree who lives in Italy has told on the website of work experiences fanpage.it Its history and how it entered the labor market with just 14 years. He did it in 1966, in the hospitality sector. “Despite the years that have passed, the situation of these workers has changed very little, I could even say that it has worsened,” he explains in this medium.
Remember how, when I was still a child, he had a job in a pizzeria in Apulia, where he started at 10:00 in the morning and left at twelve o’clock at night charging a salary that could be said ‘symbolic’ of about 13 euros (25,000 Italian lires). He never quoted the country’s social security for being working in this small restaurant, but he was satisfied since with the money he took home he could financially help his parents.
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To avoid wasting time to come and go to his home, “the owner of the pizzeria asked me to stay at home, where there was a free bedroom because his son was doing military service.”
Without social security contributions and with “non -existent” working conditions
When he was 16, he left employment at the pizzeria and went to another establishment where he worked for six months, with a schedule from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and from 6:00 p.m. to Midnight. “Despite my long days, I only cotico 30 days.” During that time, he was as an apprentice, so he charged a few cents as a salary.
“In 2015 I suffered a heart attackI could have retired before if they had done things well, paying the corresponding quotes in 67, 68 and 69. So because of those who did not register me and paid minimal amounts, many have had to work several more years before getting retirement. ”
Once he began to collect his pension, he distributes his residence between Pantelleria and Briaza, where he is still in contact with the work world through colleagues.
“What I lived in the 60s continues to happen today, especially when there are temporary contracts”
When reading Other retiree storiesVincenzo gets excited, especially when they have to do with the hotel sector. “What I lived in the 60s continues to happen today, especially in temporary and seasonal works.”
Meet some cases in Pantelleria, and remember when a young man told him that when he charged his salary, there was something that did not square him. When asked, they told him that his contract was not full -time, as he thought, but that it was temporary of four hours a day. And that, in addition, he did not fight any day a week.
Another told him that “I charged 1,500 euros per month, but when it was time to receive the payroll, I realized that there were very different conditions in the contract. I worked full days for a salary much lower than the one they had promised.”
“A mother of two children who worked as a hotel receptionist, complained that she was working 12 hours a day, and that she did not fight despite the fact that she put her day in her contract. She was 4 hours. Her husband, when she was necessary to absent himself from the job (also a hotelier), had to look for her substitute.”
“When I had employees, I paid them to the last penny”
Temporary contracts are one of the main problems of the hotel sector. “There are many people called to work five or six months, but they are only paid for a part of the time worked, which prevents them from collecting unemployment when they finish the contract.”
“The problem, as I see it, is not that it is personal. What happens is that nobody wants a job with unworthy working conditions. When I had employees, I paid them to the last cent, because I know what it is to feel exploited. This system forces you to defend you even who is supposed to protect.”
The authorities “know perfectly what is happening, but do nothing because the system would collapse.” And that is seen daily. “I know a tourist ship that transports about 30 people per trip when the limit is 20. That’s where labor exploitation is seen in certain sectors.”