Minimum wage, agreement of the oppositions: mandatory threshold of 9 euros

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The announcement comes via twitter from the leader of Azione Carlo Calenda: «All the oppositions have on the minimum wage. It is a balanced provision that takes up the fundamental points of the proposal filed by the Third Pole”. And again: “we ask the government of Giorgia Meloni (always against, ed) to open a confrontation on the merits and without prejudice”

Opposition leader: minimum wage is the common qualifying point

«The need for intervention to guarantee the adequacy of workers’ wages, especially those in conditions of poverty also due to inflation, is a qualifying element of our electoral programmes. For this reason we have worked on a single proposal that we will deposit in the Chamber in the next few days» affirm in a joint note Giuseppe Conte (5 Star Movement), Nicola Fratoianni (Italian Left), Matteo Richetti (Action), Elly Schlein (Democratic Party), Angelo Bonelli (Green Europe) and Riccardo Magi (+Europe).

Economic treatment not lower than that of collective agreements

“In fact, we want to strongly underline – the note continues – the common belief that the time has come to fully implement article 36 of the Constitution which requires that the worker be paid a remuneration proportionate to the quantity and quality of the work performed and sufficient to guarantee a free and dignified existence for oneself and one’s family”. “To achieve this goal – explain the leaders of the opposition – our proposal provides that: the worker of each economic sector is recognized an overall economic treatment not lower than that provided for by the collective agreements stipulated by the comparatively more representative employers’ and trade union organizations, the best treatment”.

Mandatory minimum threshold of 9 euros

Not only. “As a further guarantee of the recognition of a fair wage”, the proposal also provides that “a mandatory minimum threshold of 9 euros per hour should be introduced, to protect in particular the most fragile and poorest sectors of the world of work, in which the bargaining power of trade union organizations is weaker

Threshold extended to self-employed and semi-subordinated

Furthermore, it is requested that «the fair retribution thus defined does not concern only subordinate workers, but also employment relationships that present similar needs for protection in the context of para-subordination and self-employment;