Philipp Plein: 'Trattati come criminali a Lugano'

Erano le 23.35 di ieri quando l'ispettorato del lavoro ha fatto visita allo stilista Philipp Plein nella sua sede di Lugano. Lo stilista ha scelto Instagram per denunciare quanto accaduto, coinvolgendo con un tag anche il sindaco di Lugano, Marco Borradori.  “Siamo stati trattati come criminali”, sono le parole di Plein che ha raccontato che stava mangiando una pizza nello stabilimento con 6 designer e 4 fornitori arrivati dall'Italia. “Ci è stato chiesto di smettere il lavoro e di lasciare immediatamente l'edificio. Non posso credere che il Canton Ticino, che sta cercando di attirare l'attenzione soprattutto del settore della moda, possa trattarmi come criminale”. 

Ecco il testo completo, così come postato, da Philipp Plein.

philippplein78Yesterday at 23.25 I received a visit from a labor officer at my HEADQUARTERS in LUGANO TICINO SWITZERLAND ! I was told that we should “immediately” stop working and I should leave my office building with all the remaining people inside ! I can’t believe that the Canton Ticino, which is trying to attract companies constantly, especially from the fashion sector in order to move to SWITZERLAND is treating us like criminals while we were having PIZZA at my own office building with 6 of my designers and 4 suppliers who visited us from ITALY ! I can’t believe and I will not accept such a treatment against my company and my employees ! It is unbelievable that we were treated like criminals while we were sitting inside of our own office building at 11.25 pm ! We were asked to show our IDs and we were told that the police will come ? I have in total more than 700 employees worldwide working directly for my group all over the world with offices in NEW YORK / HONG KONG / MILAN / MOSCOW ....... In the last 4 years I created more than 140 jobs in Lugano only and my group is generating a turnover of more than 300 million DOLLAR ! I NEVER RECEIVED SUCH A TREATMENT ! Everybody who was with me yesterday at the office felt like a criminal after and I can’t even explain to them why ....... because we are still at the office ?Because we can’t have a pizza after 11pm ? Because we did something wrong to the society of Lugano ? This is now the second time we have received such a treatment and it is NOT ACCEPTABLE ! Last year our IT team of 2 people were treated the same way ......they were installing at night 6 new computers for new employees and they were updating the server ! This work had to be done after working hours because we had to shut down all server and computer systems, otherwise more than 140 people would be without computers for more than hours the day after !!!!!! My IT team was treated the same way like I was yesterday ....... they were asked to stop working....... the fact that they could not finish their work the same night caused that 140 people the day after to have a half day without telephones and computers ! THIS IS A SCANDAL ! @marcoborradori