Surprise move by the majority on the minimum salary. The center-right has deposited in the Labor Commission in the Chamber a repeal amendment who with a clean slate deletes all eight articles of the proposed law adopted as the basic text of the discussion. The reactions of the opposition were harsh and immediate with the leader of the 5 Star Movement Giuseppe Conte speaking of "insulting the Italians" and the secretary of the Democratic Party accusing the majority of "arrogance" and "propaganda".
Minimum wage: what will happen?
Today at 12 the deadline for tabling amendments would have expired. A few minutes earlier the one from the majority arrived who, de facto, cancels the proposed minimum wage bill. A provision which, according to Istat, would lead to increases for 3 million workers who would face a increase in the average salary of 804 euros per report and a growth in the wage bill of almost 2,9 billion. Of course we need to understand: the alternative is not only between minimum wage yes and minimum wage no but between minimum wage by law or minimum wage through union bargaining.
On Tuesday, the examination of the bill on the minimum wage of 9 euros gross hourly for workers will resume, while the following day it will go to the vote. Numbers in hand, lrepeal amendment presented by the centre-right, he should have no problem getting the green light.
"We have been forced to proceed in this direction and continue the work started, by the majority and the government, on measures that have already borne fruit - such as cutting the wedge and the labor law - and those that will arrive in parliament in a few days like the next work bill”, say majority sources, according to which “the issue of wages is on the political agenda of the centre-right and we are working to give adequate answers and not just instrumental and impracticable”.
Then the lunge: the oppositions “preferred to make such an important issue a propaganda totem in view of the summer, placing a wall on the proposal we made for a comprehensive discussion on bargaining, corporate welfare and poor work to be launched in September".
The reaction of the oppositions
"Those who suppress the possibility of getting workers out of exploitation and poverty qualify themselves: we are talking about 3 and a half million people with a minimum hourly wage of less than 9 euros", says the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein. “How much arrogance does it take to refuse to consider them? Behind those starvation wages there are pirate contracts, false tenders, false companies, false cooperatives, abuse of precarious contracts – he continues – They cut the fight against poverty by billions and give one euro a day with a one-time card, but they refuse to attack the problem of poverty in the places where it originates. Because they are more interested in propaganda and teasing than in solving problems." The abrogation amendment filed by the majority: “does not humiliate the opposition: it humiliates working poor men and women, abandoning them to the grip of inflation and the disastrous consequences of the provisions of this government. The majority think again and approve this proposal with us.
Secondo Matteo Richetti, group leader of Action, “the response of the majority was not long in coming; on the minimum wage they block the law and their counter-proposal is: nothing, underpaid workers can wait”.
The M5S leader is also tough, Giuseppe Conte: “Carovita? Underpaid work? Bad paychecks? Here is the government's response: a hastily packaged amendment to suppress our legal minimum wage proposal that would give millions of citizens the right to a decent wage. For Conte "Meloni and the majority are convinced that with the elections they had the political mandate to insult the Italians".
