Nearly 2,000 irregular workers, mostly Bangladeshis and Eastern Europeans, paid with meager wages, were discovered by the Guardia di Finanza in the shipbuilding industry of Venice, as part of an investigative activity coordinated by the Lagoon Public Prosecutor's Office.
The investigation, in collaboration with the Labor Inspectorate, was aimed at bringing to light the existence of systematic practices of exploitation of the workforce within the Venetian shipyards.
These are workers who were paid with irregular wages and often deprived of the most elementary rights sanctioned by collective agreements.