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Italy: Pro-Migrant Groups Facing 15,000 Job Losses After Budget Cuts By Interior Minister ...

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Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini implemented budget cuts under his Security decree that will lead to the termination of an estimated 15,000 pro-immigration group and reception center workers. Left-wing groups complained just months ago that Salvini's Security decree would lead to a decrease in their profits. Mafia organized crime groups also received money from the Italian state to to run asylum reception centers, and pocketed large amounts of cash while giving migrants substandard food and shelter.

Following a series of budgetary cuts as part of populist Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's security and migration decree, migrant helper associations claim they have been forced to lay off thousands of employees.

The Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL) union announced the complaint, saying that so far pro-migrant groups have been forced to lay off around 5,000 workers due to the funding cuts in the security decree and added that the social centres were looking at a total of 15,000 layoffs by the end of the year, Italian newspaper Il Giornale reports.

CGIL's Stefano Sabato commented on the effect of the migration funding cuts saying, "At the moment we have come to count about 5000 redundancy procedures, to which we are responding with the tools available, solidarity agreements, fund for wage integration, but our interest is to be able to restore ordinary social safety nets to cope with the dramatic situation that in this way we risk not being able to manage."

"If the Security decree is not reformed or amended within 12 months, we will still have to launch mass dismissal procedures," he added.

The announcement of mass layoffs in the pro-migrant reception sector come only months after the left-wing groups complained that their profits were going to decline as a result of the security decree.

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