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From Ghana, Togo, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau, Pakistan and other countries, the asylum-seekers find temporary work through a local non-profit group that helps them find legal employment in vineyards or olive groves while their claims are being processed.

June 3, 2021 Share CASALE DEL BOSCO, Italy — Summer is arriving in Italy’s wine country in Tuscany, and the leaves on the vines shimmer in gold and green. Yahya Adams moves his gloves through the foliage, removing excess buds and shoots to make the vines stronger. He’s among 24 asylum-seekers from Africa and Asia who are working in vineyards of Tenute Silvio Nardi on this year’s crop of Brunello di Montalcino, one of Italy’s most famous wines. They come from Ghana, Togo, Sierr...

The NGO aims to bring asylum-seekers into the labor market under the same pay and conditions as Italians, rather than getting sucked into the off-the-books system known in Italian as "caporalato."

Pandemic created ‘unparalleled’ jobs crisis, UN says AP, UNITED NATIONS The COVID-19 pandemic has created an “unparalleled” global labor market crisis that would affect the employment market for years, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a report on Wednesday. The UN agency said that “all countries have suffered a sharp deterioration in employment and national income, which has aggravated existing inequalities and risks inflicting longer-term ‘scarring’ effects on ...