Public sector workers in southern Italy have been caught wearing cardboard boxes over their heads in a bid to avoid identification as they cheat on their time clocks, Italian media reported on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi declared on Wednesday that the “good times are over” for time clock cheats after the cabinet passed a law that will make it easier to sack work-shy public sector staff.
Two Muslim men, fined €4,600 for slaughtering a conscious goat in the street, have had an animal cruelty conviction overturned by a court in Italy on faith grounds.
Hopeful applicants from all over Italy have sent their CVs to the town council of San Remo in Liguria after dozens of staff were sacked amid an absenteeism scandal.
The sky-high figure, confirmed by Italy's financial police, is a record for a ten month period and shows that in spite of public promises to crack down on corruption, the problem remains rife.
The Chief Financial Officer of Turin's transport authority, GTT, was fired on Thursday, after it emerged she allegedly spend thousands of euros of the company's cash on luxury goods.
Italy is preparing to tighten the law against time clock cheats after a series of stings which found people clocking-in for friends and a traffic cop punching-in in his underpants.
A €12 million fund will be available immediately for city councils to spend on public transport and car-sharing in an effort to combat severely high smog levels, Environment Minister Gian Luca Galletti said.
The northern Italian cities of Milan and Turin are letting people use public transport free of charge in an effort to combat dangerously high levels of airborne pollution.
Milan has decided to extend its bikesharing scheme – known as BikeMi – to children, giving youngsters the chance to pedal around the city with mum and dad.
Italy is a country of half-finished projects. In fact, there are 671 incomplete public works projects across the country, according to data compiled by Linkiesta.
The amount of public debt racked up by the eurozone’s third largest economy reached a new record of €2.2 trillion in May, up by €23.4 billion in a month, the Bank of Italy said on Tuesday
Pictures of one of Italy's most prominent female politicians eating an ice cream have whipped up a sexism storm after a magazine used them as an excuse to imply she must be proficient at oral sex.
Italy's public deficit rose to 3.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) over the first nine months of last year, the official data agency said, raising the risk that it could breach the EU threshold.
Millions of Italians in short-term jobs or those with sporadic contracts that offer few benefits could end up in poverty in old age, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said in a report on Tuesday.
The European Commission said on Wednesday it was ready to accept an Italian request to modify the way public deficits are calculated, which would give Rome more leeway in spending while still respecting EU demands to keep the deficit below 3.0 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).
