Hunger wages, company condemned: “Unconstitutional”

He received a lower-than-basic income, 640 euros net, and despite the implementation of the national sector agreement, the effective hourly wage – 3.96 euros per hour – even led him to live below the poverty line estimated by Istat at 840 euros. Thus, the labor judge in Milan is 36 of the Charter, where “the worker has the right to a wage commensurate with the amount and quality of work he receives”, and in any event sufficient to ensure a free and dignified life for himself and his family”.

To support the employee in the Adl Cobas case: the woman worked as a concierge service at a large-scale distribution warehouse in Padua. Mauto Zanotto of Adl Cobas explains that another twenty similar cases will be pending in the Euganean capital. “Not just in private companies – he says – but also in the public sector”.

Judge Tullio Perillo awarded the fine in favor of the worker, ordering the inspection company to pay 372 gross euros per month (over 6,700 in total) or more for the difference between the wages paid for a janitor’s service and the expected wage. “This is a historic victory,” adds Zanotto of Adl Cobas, paving the way for nearly 100,000 other workers in Italy in the same situation. CGIL and Cis”.

The head of Movimento 5 Stelle Giuseppe Conte also intervened: “Numbers like this do not allow you to live a dignified life: these are hunger wages”. Even Franco Mari, leader of Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra in the Chamber’s Labor Commission, “underlines what is now the job of Parliament after the conviction of Milan’s labor judge: The task of the opposition is to synthesize, not synthesize. among the five Minimum Wage Bills”.

Source: Today IT

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