(Finance) – Up 62.710 inspections defined only by Inl, the National Labor Inspectorate in the year 2021, beyond 62% were found to be irregular: 39,052 (total number in the tertiary, construction, industry and agriculture sectors) led to the adoption of a report of offenses. Out of 84,679 inspections defined overall by Inl-Inps-Inail, the 69% it was overall irregular, with an increase in social security (+ 17%) and insurance (+ 42%) matters.
This is what emerges from the annual report on the activity of the Inspectorate. The highest indices of irregularities are found in the construction sector and in the tertiary sector where, in particular, there is a significant irregularity rate in the activities of accommodation and catering services, transport and warehousing, but above all in services supporting businesses, where the irregularity indices are attributable, first of all, to illicit outsourcing and interpositions. The total number of workers protected by INL (151,742) includes, in addition to the 59,362 workers protected as a result of disputed offenses, also those protected with the adoption of measures such as the formal notice (12,720), the provision (74.705) or success of monochrome conciliations (4,955). The presence of “undeclared” workers constitutes about 26% (15,150) of the 59,362 irregular workers protected by INL and was found in 39% of the 39,052 inspections with irregular results.
Another important constant concerns the geographical framework of the checks launched on the national territory, which were distributed affecting in particular the south (with 30%) – with the exception of Sicily which, according to the regional statute, makes use of its own independent Inspectorate – the center (with 29%) and to follow the north west and north east (with 21% and 20%), With the exception, in the latter geographical area, of the autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano, which make use of their own Inspectorates due to their special autonomy. Against this homogeneity of controls on the national territory, the distribution of the irregularity rates on an interregional basis appears significant: in the North East there is the maximum rate of irregularities of over 70%, which drops to 61.48% approximately in the north west, to almost 60% in the center and south. In the ratio between the number of undeclared workers and that of inspections with irregular results, the highest percentages at regional level were found in Campania (60 undeclared workers per 100 inspections with irregular results), followed by Tuscany (52%) and Calabria (48%). The trend towards one is confirmed general decrease in undeclared work for women, resulting in a reduction in the female share from 40% in 2019 to 30% in 2021, and consequently there is a growth in the male share of undeclared work, which goes from 60% in 2019 to 70% in 2021. Out of 3,971 measures to suspend entrepreneurial activity, 3641 are for “illegal” workers and 330 for health and safety violations.
This before the entry into force of the legislative decree 146/2021. In the protection of workers victims of illegal hiring and labor exploitation, an increase of 18% compared to 2020 was confirmed, with 2,192 victims of exploitation.