Italian woman awarded compensation after breaking ankle while working from home pred 4 urami in 40 minutami University of Padua employee fractured ankle when getting up to fetch documents during video meetingAn Italian woman who fell and broke her ankle while working from home has obtained compensation in an unprecedented court ruling hailed a victory for workers’ rights.In April 2022, the woman, an employee in the University of Padua’s law department, fractured her ankle in two places. The injury, which happened during a Zoom meeting where she fell after she got up from her desk to fetch documents, required surgery and treatment lasting more than four months. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Mafia accused of using Naples hospital for fraud and illegal transport of corpses pred 4 urami in 47 minutami Four arrests over Camorra’s alleged infiltration of San Giovanni Bosco to carry out lucrative criminal activityItalian police on Wednesday arrested four people over an alleged Camorra plot to infiltrate a Naples hospital, stage fake crashes for insurance payouts and spirit corpses away on oxygen-masked stretchers to profit from private ambulance transfers.The investigation, prompted by the testimony of a state witness, uncovered a web of lucrative criminal activity allegedly carried out by members of the Contini clan of the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia, inside San Giovanni Bosco hospital. Prosecutors said the “operations were made possible by the organisation’s capacity for intimidation, a force that bent public officials and private citizens alike to its will”. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
British-Danish couple say new UK passport rules may separate them from children pred 4 urami in 52 minutami Family learned of change while abroad, and fear dual-national children will have to stay with relatives while they return to apply for passportsA British man and a Danish woman fear they will be separated from their young children in Copenhagen airport because of new border control rules on British dual nationals.James Scrivens and his wife, Sara, who live in Wales, were visiting relatives in Norway and Denmark during the school holidays, and learned about the new Home Office rules only while they were abroad. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
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