Italy is set to have 766 new labor inspectors as part of efforts to boost workplace safety. Draft of a new decree on implementation of Italy's EU-funded post-Covid national recovery and resilience plan.

Measures to prevent and combat irregular employment, ahot topic in Italy after a structural collapse at a buildingsite in Florence on February 16 left five construction workers dead and three seriously injured. The measure will make it possible to press ahead with 466 labor-inspector hires that had been put on ice.