Salvini: “Minimum wage is disrespectful. Small entrepreneurs give up their salaries to pay their employees”

Forced to choose between employers and employees, Council vice-president and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini seems to have no doubts: “On the subject of salary, speaking at the Confesercenti meeting, he said that I often talk to employees and by asking for their salaries at the end of the month to pay their employees and collaborators “They’re giving up, so I think talking about minimum wage is disrespectful to a private individual who creates jobs and wealth.”

Minimum hourly wage would be ‘disrespectful’

In short, if a small and medium-sized business offers wages that enable people to live well below the poverty line, it would be “disrespectful” to ask the business owner to pay his subordinates better, according to Matteo Salvini. “Imposing by law, bureaucratically reducing the minimum hourly wage from above – continues the deputy prime minister – means leaving many traders, artisans and small entrepreneurs in a difficult situation. And absurdly, in Italy it means bringing back workers covered by the national collective agreement. Cases 97 percent is almost always higher than what a minimum wage earner would expect.”

When he was proven right, the waiters paid 600 euros.

This is not the first time Salvini has sided with employers. The same situation happened in 2021, in the post-pandemic period, when he criticized the citizen’s income by comparing it with the salaries of underpaid waiters. “Many entrepreneurs, from north to south, complain that they get too many nos from those they offer jobs to, because the answer is: ‘I’d better save the 500 euros to stay at home and watch the European football championships’. There are contracts. There are no exploitative entrepreneurs. It’s simple.” : If you get 600 euros to stay at home and watch TV, and they offer you 600 euros to go and be a waiter, I can guess the solution.”

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