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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Vatican Museums faces unprecedented legal dispute over job conditions

A man with a large bunch of keys walks down a long corridor in the Vatican Museums
The Vatican Museums is a sprawling complex of 54 galleries and includes the Sistine Chapel. It employs more than 700 people. Photograph: Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images

Forty-nine employees at the Vatican Museums have started an unprecedented legal dispute over job conditions and workplace safety, which could lead to the Holy See being taken to court.

The staff, mostly custodians who have worked at the museums for years, claim they are treated as “commodities” by Pope Francis’s administration, according to a report in Corriere della Sera.

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