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| For 3 years they promised me an indeterminate contract, as Italian citizen I was under the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs job laws and rules but the Embassy never care in fact I have had to accept an inferior category (typist) instead of Assistant, so my salary was the half of the legal one. For this reason I decided to make a case against the Embassy. |
by Patrizia Falco
(May 27, Rome, Sri Lanka Guardian) My name is Ms. Patrizia Falco, I am an Italian citizen, I decide to write to your newspaper to tell you my judicial history in the hope you will make public my history in Sri Lanka.
Everything has beginning on May 2008 when after 3 years as Assistant of the Minister of Commercial Affairs (2005-2008) I has been dismissed from the Embassy of the Socialist Democratic Republic of Sri Lanka in Rome, via Adige,2-00198 Rome. I don’t want to argue about my dismissal but I just want to make you understand the facts and how the Embassy acts over the world.
For 3 years they promised me an indeterminate contract, as Italian citizen I was under the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs job laws and rules but the Embassy never care in fact I have had to accept an inferior category (typist) instead of Assistant, so my salary was the half of the legal one. For this reason I decided to make a case against the Embassy.
In November 2009, the judge has established through the tests document and witness that the Embassy had to pay me an economic reimbursement, the sustained legal expenses and to pay the same amount to the Italian National Institute of the Social Foresight named INPS, because they declared for 3 years an inferior salary. The months pass and the Embassy communicates that a cent of reimbursement won't pay to none of the having right. It ‘s now 1 year and 6 months that the sentence has been pronounced by the Italian Court and the Sri Lanka Embassy doesn’t care because they are protected by the Diplomatic word.
This is the behaviour of an Embassy that should represented the Sri Lanka nation and its people over the world. This Embassy had many cases over the years and few not concluded because they decided to not respect the Italian laws. In Italy there is a large community of Sri Lankan how work hardly, as I did for the Embassy, for a better life for them and for their families. They have the same right and respect the Italian law, most of them decide to grow up their children in my country but you should know how represented your country and how act.
Of course I will not give up this situation as I will get my rights and I will continue to send information to Sri Lankan and Italian authorities since I will obtain justice.
(The writer can be reached at patfalco@alice.it )
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