China News Service, May 29. According to a report from the European Network of Italy, the Italian authorities approved the start of production and operation activities on May 18. Many Chinese companies still hold a wait-and-see attitude about when to resume work, and some Chinese companies simply Choose to close the door, seek another business opportunity or return to China for development. As a result, in the post-epidemic crisis period, tens of thousands of Chinese migrant workers living in Italy will face the dilemma of finding a job or having no work to do, whether to return to China or stay in Italy.
According to the analysis of Italian Chinese business people, it is conservatively estimated that Italian Chinese migrant workers account for about two-thirds of the local 300,000 Chinese, and most of them come from Zhejiang and Fujian areas in China. In recent years, some Chinese from Liaoning and other regions of China have worked in Italy.
Italian working-class Chinese generally accept cultural education at a low level, have relatively poor language skills, do not have excessive technical expertise of industrial workers, and have relatively narrow fields of employment. According to the reporter's recent knowledge with officials of the National Social Security Administration, so far, fewer than 5,000 Chinese have registered with the Social Security Administration to work for Italian companies. In other words, more than 90% of Italian Chinese working people work in Chinese companies.
The industry in which Italian Chinese companies are engaged determines the employment orientation of Chinese migrant workers. Generally, the occupations that the Chinese in Italy can choose are nothing more than restaurants, clothing processing factories, leather processing factories and Chinese wholesale and retail enterprises. Chinese work in such enterprises, not only do not need language, the boss usually packs food and shelter, as long as they are hard-working, the general monthly income is more than 2000 euros.
The new pneumonia epidemic has not only severely damaged the Chinese economy, but also made it more difficult for Chinese migrant workers. The working Chinese in Italy are different from those in other ethnic groups. Some migrant workers of other ethnicities must first sign a labor contract and obtain unemployment protection when seeking employment. The Chinese choose more high-income incomes and have low requirements for social labor security, so that once they encounter force majeure events, many Chinese will not be able to obtain social security and government relief.
After the outbreak of the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic, the Italian authorities successively offered a number of relief policies for corporate employees, but because many Chinese people usually seldom report work, even if the report is only half a day or an hour or two, more In order to keep the residence, when the residence is extended, it barely declares several months of labor tax. As a result, after the outbreak of the outbreak, Chinese migrant workers were unable to apply for unemployment benefits from the Social Security Administration.
Ms. Sun, a 50-year-old woman who has been working in Italy for more than ten years, told reporters that she is working with her husband, son, and daughter-in-law's family of four, and lives with a grandson. The general family's monthly income will be more than 10,000 euros, and life is still very rich. Nowadays, we can only live on our old books, and we don't know when we need to survive.
A chef working in a restaurant said that as a Chinese chef, under normal circumstances, he used to save more than 2,000 euros per month to send to his wife in China. Now that the restaurant owner has decided not to open the door, he has to call around to work. At present, there is a serious surplus of chefs and waiters in Italian Chinese restaurants, and they simply cannot find a job suitable for them.
Xiao Zhang, who works in a factory, said that from the outbreak to the present, after several months of eating, sleeping and watching dramas, he gained a few kilograms in weight and had nothing to do all day long. Fortunately, the boss of the factory is in charge of food and control, and he doesn't have too much burden. Now I only hope that the factory will start work sooner, because the factory is a piece-rate wage, and there is no money for it.
Mr. Wang, who opened the restaurant, said that looking at the current epidemic situation and the local people ’s fearless character and actions of the new coronavirus, even if there is a vaccine, it will take at least three years for the Chinese food industry in Italy to resume its former prosperity. Small Chinese restaurants are still barely maintained, and large Chinese restaurants may not be so lucky. Chinese people currently working in Italian Chinese restaurants say that there should be about 20,000 people, and about half of them will lose their jobs or change jobs.
At present, it is difficult for Chinese working families in Italy to find a job and have no work to do. Many people have been affected by the epidemic and have fallen into a state of no basic income source. Although the Chinese usually have some savings, it is still unknown whether they can survive for a year. (Boyuan)