Guide against workplace accidents

Monday, 07 June 2010  

A foreigner, not a stranger - ABC of safety at workplace. Inail publishes special guide for foreign workers.

Inail - The National institute for work injury and occupational illness insurance, has just published the brochure titled “A foreigner, not a stranger - ABC of safety at workplace”.

The Guide has been published in response to the need of directly addressing ethnic communities in Italy mainly exposed to risks at workplace, to help them know the basic safety rules in a simple and direct language.

It provides information about how to avoid workplace accidents, and indicates what must be done immediately an accident occurs, who to contact and information about the branches of Inail.

“A foreigner, not a stranger - ABC of safety at workplace” has been published in Italian and ten other languages: Ukrainian, Romanian, Albanian, Polish, Portuguese, Tagalog, Arabic, Spanish, English, and French.

Even a family breadwinner can be expelled

Friday, 22 January 2010

Cassation Court: It cannot stop the expulsion order from being executed.

7th August 2009: An illegal immigrant can be expelled from Italy even if he/she is sustaining the family in the home country.

The Cassation Court has ruled that having a family to take care of in one’s home country doesn’t allow him/her to remain in Italy after being given an expulsion order.

The Court made the ruling in the case of an expelled Nigerian who was given an expulsion order in 2005. A Tribunal in Bergamo cleared him in 2006 because the judge considered a justified reason, his decision of not leaving Italy because of the need to cater for his family’s needs. The man didn’t have any past criminal records.

But the Cassation Court annulled the sentence saying that while the need of sustaining one’s family in his home country is a socially and humanly good gesture, it cannot stop the expulsion order from being executed.

EC long-term residence permit issued by another country

Thursday, 06 May 2010 

Ministry of Home Affairs has been receiving many questions from foreigners in other EU Member States who are holders of EC long-term residence permit interested in coming to live in Italy for a period exceeding three months.

Many wanted to know if they’ll be issued another EC long-term residence permit by Italian authorities once they arrive here.

Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a Circular letter saying that a holder of EC long-term residence permit issued by another EU Member State who wants to live in Italy has a right to be issued a Permit of Stay and not an EC long-term residence permit.

Family members of such a person also have a right to be issued a Permit of Stay similar (type and validity period) to the one issued to the former holder of EC long-term residence permit from another EU Member State.

Italian authorities will only issue the EC long-term residence permit to the foreigner who meets all the requirements established by Italian law which obviously includes legal residence in the country for at least five years.