Minimum wage: Pietro Ichino recalls that it was already in the implementing decrees of the Jobs Act but that the CGIL didn't want it then

Pietro Ichino, former parliamentarian before the PCI and the Democratic Party and then with Mario Monti's Civic Choice, he is not only one of the most appreciated Italian labor lawyers but he is also a courageous man who has never been afraid to express uncomfortable truths. He also did it yesterday in an interview in Riformista, the newspaper directed by Matteo Renzi, with whom he has shared many battles but who has not failed to criticize when he believed it was right: for example on the minimum wage. Ichino had previously recalled that the legal minimum wage was envisaged by the implementing decrees of the Jobs Act, which is the symbolic reform of Renzism that the CGIL by Landini and the Pd by Elly Schlein they would now like to cancel, and he wondered why today Renzi does not share the idea of ​​establishing it by law and prefers, like the CISL, to get there through union bargaining. But it is precisely the Jobs Act that refreshes the memory of Ichino who defends the system of Renzi's reform and then lucidly recalls that already "the enabling law (on the Jobs Act) provided for the establishment of the minimum salary for all employment relationships not covered by the national collective agreement. If the delegation was not implemented, it was also due to the opposition of the CGIL, which instead today is claiming the law on the minimum wage”. Changing your mind is lawful but not by deleting the memory. Well done, Professor Ichino.