Fair wages must be ensured says Mattarella

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 29 - President Sergio Mattarella on Friday highlighted the need to ensure fair wages, fighting labour exploitation including a gangmaster system which he said has reached an unacceptable level of illegality.
    "Fair wages must be ensured, forcefully fighting forms of exploitation which reach in the gangmaster system an unacceptable peak of illegality", Mattarella said in a message to the president of the Italian farmers' confederation CIA, Cristiano Fini.
    In the message, Mattarella also said innovative agricultural productions could help repopulate internal and mountain areas.
    "Innovative productions can give an occasion of employment to the young", he said.
    Earlier this year, Pensions and Social Security Agency INPS, Carabinieri police and labour inspectors carried out a joint nationwide operation to crack down on the gangmaster system in the agricultural sector, discovering that 56.9% of workers employed by the farms surveyed were not regularly hired. (ANSA).