Minister of Welfare Maurizio Sacconi of Italy

ROME, Nov 14 (UPI) — The Italian government is working on a plan to cut the number of immigrants, Welfare Minister Maurizio Sacconi said Thursday.
Sacconi said the government wants to make immigration by the unskilled more difficult while taking a much more flexible line with professionals, nurses and other trained health care workers, the.
It's tonight or never,'' Labour Minister Maurizio Sacconi said last night in Rome, adding that he wanted signs of union acceptance before the workday started today.
ROME (Reuters) - Layoffs at bankrupt airline Alitalia should be less than 5,000, Italy's Labour Minister Maurizio Sacconi said on Thursday after meeting with unions.
Labor Minister Maurizio Sacconi said in a statement that the failure put Alitalia "on the road" to liquidation.
recall or destruction of the meat.
MILAN, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Italy should lift a ban on growing genetically modified crops, Welfare and Health Minister Maurizio Sacconi said on Monday.
Labor Minister Maurizio Sacconi describes the agreement as "an important step forward.
Labor Minister Maurizio Sacconi describes the agreement as "an important step forward" in the government's efforts to save the airline.
Sacconi said interest from international carriers such as Lufthansa showed the plan had wings.
The threat of bankruptcy of our national economy should be considered real," Italian Minister of Welfare Maurizio Sacconi said as he and other officials sounded the alarm in a TV broadcast on Wednesday evening during a discussion about the world's economic crisis.
But Italian Employment Minister Maurizio Sacconi said it was “a solid base upon which to build a future for national carrier.
The figure was in line with what Sacconi had suggested earlier this month, and lower than the 5,000 to 7,000 layoffs that had previously been expected.
ROMELabor Minister Maurizio Sacconi expressed pessimism Friday over Alitalia's future after talks were suspended on a plan to relaunch the bankrupt airline with a group of Italian investors.
disabilities and in a situation of total dependence.
In his decree, Sacconi said denying nutrition and hydration to a patient in a persistent vegetative state can be interpreted as discrimination based on judgments about the quality of life of a person with serious disabilities and in a situation of total dependence.
Private companies will be offered incentives to take on workers leaving Alitalia and Sacconi said public sector jobs would only be available on merit.
with serious disabilities and in a situation of total dependence.
After the break down of talks, Italian labour minister Maurizio Sacconi said that the situation is ''worrisome and getting worse'', saying that Alitalia will not be able to operate much longer ''if there aren't new developments.
ROME, Jan 7 (Reuters) - The number of Italians temporarily laid off in December surged 525 percent from the same month of 2007, Welfare Minister Maurizio Sacconi said on Wednesday, as companies grappled with a steep fall in demand.
Sacconi said the manufacturing sector had been hit particularly hard, accounting for almost two thirds of the workers sent home.
Welfare Minister Maurizio Sacconi said he was hopeful that the nine unions would sign off on an industrial plan drafted by the bank Intesa SanPaolo for a group of Italian investors to inject euro1 billion (US$ 1.
bring the two sides back together.
discussions on the labor contract would begin today.
The situation is worrisome and getting worse,’’ Labor Minister Maurizio Sacconi said in Rome today after the negotiations broke down.
Plans for the relaunch of Alitalia by Italian investors are estimated to include the loss of 3,250 permanent jobs from the current Alitalia and AirOne operations, Italian labour minister Maurizio Sacconi is quoted as saying.
Those who have presented the offer estimate that out of 17,500 structurally employed by Alitalia and Air One, 14,250 should be re-employed by the company itself or by other companies," Sacconi is quoted in Italian reports as saying.
I really think the future of Alitalia is hanging by a thread, Minister Maurizio Sacconi said on a morning talk show.
Asked if the government had a contingency plan to deal with the domestic transport chaos that a collapse of Alitalia would entail, Sacconi said no.
MILAN, Italy - Italy should lift a ban on growing genetically modified crops, Welfare and Health Minister Maurizio Sacconi said on Monday.