Work means rights, dignity, inclusion says Mattarella

Republic founded on work says Constitution art 1

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May 09 2024
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Work means rights, dignity, and inclusion, President Sergio Mattarella said at a civic event in Milan Thursday.
    "Work is a right, it is dignity, it is inclusion. And it is no coincidence that Article 1 of our Constitution speaks of work, making it the foundation of our Republic," he said at 'Civil Week' addressing a girl, Beatrice, who works at the PizzAut takeaway pizza firm.
    "Just as Article 3 adds not only that every citizen has equal dignity, but that the State must ensure that what hinders it is removed," Mattarella added.
    Mattarella went on to say that the Constitution had been written with "great wisdom" and so as to apply to issues that were unknown at the time.
    He said that mooted reforms to the first part of the Constitution ignored the fact that "what they want to add to the text is already clearly implied in the norms, because of the general and flexible character of their formulation and on the basis of values and principles which represent their foundation".