Distant positions between government and opposition on minimum wage. At the meeting at Palazzo Chigi, which lasted two hours, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni reiterated her position of opposition to the introduction of the measure, justifying it in her opening speech. Then the opposition leaders spoke, who illustrated their proposals in alphabetical order. The centre-left would like a salary based on the average of national contracts with a minimum of 9 euros.
Meloni would have criticized the structure of the proposal, along the lines of what was explained days ago in his social column “Notes from Giorgia” and the leaders would have responded to the objections by illustrating their bill. That’s what we learned from the face-to-face meeting between the prime minister and the opposition at Palazzo Chigi. The purpose of the meeting was to verify whether an agreement between the parties was possible to resolve the issue of low wages. According to what is filtered, after the intervention of the prime minister and the opposition leaders, the floor would have passed to the other members of the government, the two deputy prime ministers Matteo Salvini and Antonio Tajani and the minister of Labor, Marina Calderone.
The risk is that with the legal setting of a quota of 9 euros, the wages of 80% of the workers who earn the most today are reduced: this is what Salvini stressed, who participated in a video link. It’s all well and good to work against pirated contracts and exploitation – was the Northern League leader’s reasoning – but with 90% of workers already covered and protected by national contracts, it’s better to focus your efforts on something else. And then, merchants and artisans already in difficulty would risk closing. In short – he added -, as with the citizen’s income, there is a risk of fueling undeclared work. I prefer to open construction sites and unlock works, to create stable and well-paid work. The Bridge over the Strait, which Pd and 5Stelle oppose – he said – will create 100,000 jobs between Sicily and Calabria, in addition to the basic income or wages imposed by law.
Source: IL Tempo
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