Meloni, meeting with the unions on the labor decree and tax wedge on Sunday. Giorgetti: “More fringe benefits for those with children”

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has convened a meeting at Palazzo Chigi on Sunday afternoon, at 7 pm, but the summit will be chaired by a meeting with the unions on the labor and income inclusion decree and on the measures relating to the tax wedge, which will go to the Council of Ministers on first of May.

The premier is now in the United Kingdom: she will meet British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Downing Street for a bilateral meeting. Meanwhile, on the issues under discussion in the CDM, the Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti began in this way in front of reporters who asked him for some anticipations: “We will first illustrate the decree to the unions and then to you”. Then, still in front of the reporters gathered in Transatlantico, on the Council of Ministers scheduled for May 1 and referring to the labor measures the executive is working on, Giorgetti underlined that the government “will allocate the margins of budget available to finance, for the current year, a new cut in social contributions paid by employees with medium-low incomes and an increase in the limit of fringe benefits for employees with children”.

With these measures, the government intends to pursue “the dual purpose of increasing real household incomes and at the same time limiting the wage-price run-up, which would make the inflationary surge caused by energy and food prices more sustained over time, transforming it into a structural one”, he said Giorgetti.

The requests of the majority
The majority commits the government “to evaluate, within the possible budget space available for the next manoeuvre, an intervention in the matter of raising minimum pensions”. This can be read in the majority resolution to the Def, the document on Economics and Finance, the main instrument of economic-financial planning in Italy. The document also commits the executive to “continue with the action to reduce the tax wedge and to evaluate the reallocation of public spending from sectors that have a low impact on growth to those that can increase its potential, considering that the increase in GDP can have a positive impact on all public finance indicators».