Minimum wage, amendment by the majority to scuttle the opposition proposal. Ira Pd: right against dignity

The united majority presented a suppressive amendment to the entire opposition law proposal on the minimum wage at 9 euros an hour in the Labor Committee of the Chamber. This was reported by majority parliamentary sources. «Despite the numerous hearings held in commissions, most of which expressed their opposition to a minimum wage regulated by law, the oppositions preferred to make such an important issue a propaganda totem in view of the summer, placing a wall on the proposal we advanced a 360-degree discussion on bargaining, corporate welfare and poor work to be launched in September» is the reasoning. “Therefore – the same sources continue – 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 work decree – and those which in a few days will arrive in parliament as the next work bill. The issue of wages is on the center-right’s political agenda and we are working to give adequate answers and not just instrumental and impracticable ones».

The reaction of the oppositions was very harsh. “The right has thrown off the mask on the minimum wage. No counter proposal, no search for a meeting point with the opposition. A pure and simple no. Prejudicial. Ideological. A slap in the face to three million underpaid and exploited workers» tweets the economic manager of the Pd Antonio Misiani. «There was no need because we already knew it, but the amendment filed in the Chamber by the centre-right for the suppression of the proposed law on the minimum wage certifies that the Italian right is against the dignity of work and against the poor. After a work decree that institutionalized precariousness, after the abolition of the basic income, after the alms of the social card, now the no to the minimum wage proposal states that Giorgia Meloni and her allies consider the most fragile, those with the least , who has no work their opponents. For us, below the 9 euro threshold is not work but exploitation. For them, evidently the three million underpaid and exploited workers are not worthy of being protected’» adds the president of the senators of the Democratic Party, Francesco Boccia.