Emergency carers, 20,000 non-EU workers by 2025
In addition to the already planned quota of 9,500 entries, a new quota of 10,000
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The last year of the three-year planning of non-EU worker flows will bring a dowry of 19,500 posts for the family and socio-medical care sector.
In 2025, in fact, 9,500 foreign family and socio-medical workers will be able to enter the country under the 2023-2025 flows decree (Dpcm of 27 September 2023).
In addition, Decree Law 145/2024 on immigration, approved on 2 October by the Council of Ministers and published in the Official Gazette 239 of 11 October, provides for the issuance, on an experimental basis, for 2025 alone, of 10,000 work permits for family or socio-healthcare assistance to persons with disabilities or the elderly over 80. The over-80s in Italy are 4.55 million (they were 2.71 million in 2004). The forecast of new entrants wanted by the government meets the demands of the employers' associations in the domestic sector: the 2024 report 'Family (Net) Work-Laboratory on home, family and domestic work', prepared by Assindatcolf (National Association of Domestic Employers), in collaboration with the Idos Study and Research Centre, estimated that in 2025 the country would need 18,626 domestic helpers and caregivers from non-EU countries (see Il Sole 24 Ore of 1 July 2024).
The requests
.For the first contingent of workers, which includes caregivers, domestic helpers or baby sitters, with no age restrictions on the persons assisted, families (or the associations they rely on) will be able to apply for clearance on the click day of 7 February 2025, from 9 a.m. Pre-loading of applications on the Ministry of the Interior's website will be possible from 1 to 30 November 2024 (instructions will be provided in an ad hoc circular). This will give the administration the opportunity to check applications, sending an alert to aspiring employers in the event of incomplete or incorrect applications.
For the second contingent of workers, the 10,000 intended for the care of the over-80s or persons with disabilities, the application must be submitted to the relevant single immigration counter, again from 9 a.m. on 7 February, but through employment agencies or employers' organisations that are signatories to the national collective agreement for the domestic sector.
