"Many young people are looking for work almost hoping not to find it, they prefer citizenship income to a career path".

Talking is Flavio Briatore who, interviewed by Corriere, takes up some phrases that have made chef Alessandro Borghese discuss so much about the difficulty in finding workers in the catering sector.

"Even when you guarantee adequate salaries and long-term contracts, they refuse", adds the entrepreneur from Cuneo. In Dubai there is no problem in recruiting personnel, he explains: "I have problems in Italy, in England and a little in France. In England due to Brexit, in Italy for citizenship income, which has become the true ambition of young people ".

“The first question the guys ask me during interviews is if they can have the weekend off. I don't even take them into consideration, I don't want to see them anymore, because if someone applies in the restaurant business, the weekend off won't have it. Then you change sector ".

Times have changed, according to the 72-year-old: “The boys have no head, they aspire not to work and to take income. In my day the ambition was to become an employee, today to take the subsidy. Young people who chat until 3 in the morning but are not available to work ".

Guys who, again in Briatore's words, “have lost the value of work. As a young man I used to pick apples for two pennies, the world of work is a world of sacrifices ".

Then it always comes back there, the problem of problems. Citizenship income: "It should be suspended from April to October so that Italy is not without seasonal workers".

(Unioneonline / L)

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