Vatican Museums staff start unprecedented legal action over labour conditions
The workers, mostly museum attendants, have sent a petition to the Vatican's "Governatorato", the body that administers the Vatican City State, lamenting rules that cause "labour conditions undermining each worker's dignity and health", said lawyer Laura Sgrò, who is representing them.
They include extra work hours paid at lower rates and insufficient health and safety provisions, Sgrò said.
"Workers have decided this action only after all their demands and requests over years were left unanswered," she said.
Unions are not allowed in Vatican City.
Sgrò added that, due to the absence of furlough schemes in Vatican labour legislation, workers who had been left inactive during the COVID-19 pandemic because of the Vatican Museums' closure were now being asked to hand back salaries paid during that period.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/vat...024-05-12/
The workers, mostly museum attendants, have sent a petition to the Vatican's "Governatorato", the body that administers the Vatican City State, lamenting rules that cause "labour conditions undermining each worker's dignity and health", said lawyer Laura Sgrò, who is representing them.
They include extra work hours paid at lower rates and insufficient health and safety provisions, Sgrò said.
"Workers have decided this action only after all their demands and requests over years were left unanswered," she said.
Unions are not allowed in Vatican City.
Sgrò added that, due to the absence of furlough schemes in Vatican labour legislation, workers who had been left inactive during the COVID-19 pandemic because of the Vatican Museums' closure were now being asked to hand back salaries paid during that period.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/vat...024-05-12/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
