As part of the LABOUR-INT 2 project, funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF), UILA Campania e Napoli, member of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), implemented a programme for the better labour market inclusion of migrant workers in agriculture.

This action supports migrants’ legal employment opportunities in the Campania region where newly arrived migrants – most often asylum seekers – are hosted in reception centres or settled in urban centres such as Naples.

In this southern region, newly arrived migrants are often targeted by the so-called gang-masters (caporalato) who take advantage of people through illegal employment and housing in substandard conditions. Newcomers in a vulnerable socio-economic situationare thus often forced into underpaid, long hours, and into extreme and precarious working conditions with no protections.

To address this, together with local authorities and other stakeholders, UILA Campania e Napoli organised training modules which focused on workers' pre-selection, selection, skills assessment, matching with employers, training and internships. The actions builds upon a protocol signed in May 2016 by the stakeholders to combat gang-masting and exploitation in the agricultural sector. The training modules also adhered to the LABOUR-INT methodology, applied in this case specifically to the needs of the agriculture sector. See more about the LABOUR-INT actions in Italy.