The amendment to the budget presented by the opposition, first signed by Conte, which provides for the introduction of a minimum wage by law of 9 euros gross per hour, declared inadmissible yesterday afternoon, was readmitted by the Budget Committee of the Chamber.
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There are 79 amendments to the 2025 budget that have been readmitted, according to what was learned at the end of the Budget Commission meeting. In total they had been approx 200 appeals presented by the various parliamentary groups yesterday, after the inadmissibility declared yesterday for around 1,300 amendments (out of the 4511 filed).
The deadline for the parliamentary groups to indicate those ‘reported’ expires at 9am on Wednesday and, according to an agreement reached in recent days in the Commission’s bureau, there should be no more than 600. The hypothesis of a subsequent further screening of the amendments with the ‘highly recommended’ which should remain within 250.
Among others, the amendment presented by the opposition, initially signed by, was readmitted by the Chamber Budget Committee Giuseppe Conteon the minimum wage, declared inadmissible yesterday afternoon, which provides for the introduction of a sminimum wage by law of 9 euros gross per hour.
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According to the Commission, the article “containing an organic regulation aimed at introducing the legal minimum wage, contains rules which, although predominantly of a regulatory nature, nevertheless appear likely to produce financial effects, in particular in reference to the recognition of an economic benefit in favor of of employers for the salary increases paid for the purposes of adapting to this institution”. The amendment in question follows the unitary bill of the minority forces, M5s, Pd, Avs, Azione and Più Europa, and provides that “the minimum hourly salary established by the CCNL cannot in any case be less than 9 euros gross”.
The deadlines for transposing the EU directive have expired
Just yesterday, November 15, the deadlines for transposing the European directive on adequate minimum wages, approved two years ago, expired. Europe moved in no particular order: Italy never started the process of transpositionand like her 11 other European countries. In general, most European countries already have minimum wage legislation, except 5: Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Finland and Italy.
In 2022, Denmark and Sweden voted against the directive: in January 2023, the first country also appealed for the annulment of the directive, arguing that pay is an issue under the exclusive competence of the member states. And Sweden did the same, although the Swedish government then entrusted a commission of experts with the task of examining any interventions necessary for transposition.
According to the Adapt working paper, created by Silvia Spattini and cited by Il Sole 24 Ore, a limited number of the 27 EU countries have implemented the directive: Romania, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Hungary. Others, such as Belgium, Croatia, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg and Poland, have presented a legislative proposal on the matter.
Brussels indicates ways to fight poor work: with a minimum coverage of national collective agreements of 80 percent or with the introduction of the minimum wage by law. The directive does not suggest one of the two paths in particular, but sets a limit: the minimum wage must be equal to 60% of the gross median wage and 50% of the average gross wage.
“The Meloni Government explains why Italy has not implemented the minimum wage directive. Which today (yesterday ed.), 15 November 2024, comes into force throughout Europe – wrote the opposition group leaders in the Chamber’s labor commission, Arturo Scotto (Pd), Valentina Barzotti (M5S), Franco Mari (Avs), Antonio D’Alessio (Action) – They limited themselves to rejecting the opposition’s unitary law proposal, arguing that for them only collective bargaining matters which only needs to be strengthened who have done nothing in this year and a half to intensify it, on the contrary they have even delayed the application of the delegation they had given to the Government which is still blocked in the Senate”.
“A game of three cards that tells us the total ignorance of those who, even in this maneuver, are pursuing wrong policies that do not guarantee the full recovery of the purchasing power of wages weakened by inflation and who do not implement any policy of contrast to the expansion of poor work – they added – Even on collective bargaining the data tells us of a growth in pirate contracts and the absence of decentralized bargaining in many productive sectors. In short, Minister Calderone has not arrived: she is notable for the absence of initiative other than to reject a common-sense and European proposal from the opposition. They have time to remake themselves and realign themselves with France, Germany and Spain: let them approve our unitary amendment to the budget maneuver 3 and a half million women and men who earn under 9 euros gross per hour”.
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