Calderone announces new safety rules after Florence collapse

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 17 - Labour Minister Marina Calderone on Saturday announced a new package of measures on workplace safety after the structural collapse at a supermarket construction site in Florence on Friday that left four people confirmed dead, one person missing feared dead and three people injured.
    "There is to be no step backwards on labour safety," said Calderone in a statement, announcing the new package of regulations to combat undeclared labour, forced labour and the protection of safety in the contracting supply chain that is due to come before the cabinet in the coming days.
    "We will move forward with implementation of what has already been adopted since the government took office. But more will be done," added the minister.
    "This is the time to mourn for the workers who have lost their lives, to be close to their families and to establish the facts," she concluded. (ANSA).