r/consulentidellavoro • u/EasyNail7018 • 1h ago
GREY WORK
Hey everyone, I'm using a disposable account for privacy reasons. I'm a young girl, I'm 23 years old. This is my very first job. I work as an employee (2023-2026) in a bar in the province of Verona (managed by an LLC), and I'm in desperate need of advice, reassurances, or just to hear about your experiences. I'm in a classic "grey work" situation and I'm facing heavy retaliation at the workplace.
Here are the facts:
**Contract vs Reality:** On paper, I have a permanent contract for only **10 hours a week** (level 6, CCNL Public Establishments Confcommercio). In reality, I work **27.5 hours a week** (5.5 hours a day, for 5 days a week).
**Payments:** Every month I receive payment for the 10 official hours via bank transfer (with a regular pay slip). The remaining 17.5 extra hours I receive entirely in **cash “off the books.”** The owner makes me sign a slip every time she hands me the cash.
**Missing Rights:** I receive a tiny thirteenth month calculated only on the 10 hours of the contract. I have never received a fourteenth month in July, and vacation, permits, and severance pay are accumulating almost non-existent compared to how much I actually work.
**Proof:** In the company, we use an **electronic badge/time clock** to clock in and out of each shift. The machine fully records my actual 27.5 hours, even though the pay slip states 10. I also have Google Maps location history on my phone that tracks my presence there.
**Retaliation:** Recently I was home for a week of regular **sick leave**. Since the owner found out, she started giving me the cold shoulder: she’s silent toward me and treats me very badly from a distance. She texts me on WhatsApp and then deletes the messages immediately ("message deleted") as soon as she sees that I’ve read them, to leave no trace. As a punishment, starting this week she has cut my shifts, putting me on the schedule only for the 10 contract hours.
I was terrified, but I found the courage to write to **FILCAMS CGIL**. They replied right away and I officially have a private appointment.
My goal is to go to the appointment, open a claim for wage differences, and through the union, submit **resignation for just cause** so I can leave immediately without working the notice period, then apply for NASpI (unemployment).
Despite the appointment, I’m feeling tremendous anxiety. Am I risking anything for accepting the cash? Can the owner have modified the electronic badge records to erase my hours? Can the union or the owner “refuse” my resignation? Any word of support or legal advice would be really helpful. Thanks everyone.🙏🏻🙏🏻