Where we work, at any given moment, may not be where we choose to work, but rather where we happened to find work.
That is the difference. It is not because we are grateful to be in employment that we have to sing the praises of companies who are only capable of applying the letter of the law but not the spirit of it, in whichever country they may be/or operate in.
BTW Daniel, I am not from the land of Sarko, and most definitely not anti-Italian, I loved the time I spent in MXP in my rented house in Stresa overlooking Lago Maggiore, but that doesn't make me blind to the way I saw things running amok, seemingly unsupervised, or only very superficially, by ENAC.
The worst excesses were usually perpetrated by permanent employees willing to do ANYTHING, legal or otherwise, that us contractors had already refused.
Not mud slinging, but that was, and probably still is, a factual description of the way things were/are done in some Italian companies.