These days the oppositions are rejoicing at how the collection of signatures on the minimum wage proposal is going while Fratelli d’Italia chooses to relaunch the cut in the tax wedge. Pedal on which Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been pressing for some time now.
Lino Ricchiuti, deputy head of the Department of Enterprises and Productive Worlds of Fratelli d’Italia, is keen to point out that before talking about the minimum wage, many other levers need to be addressed, all of which are more important.
The tax wedge in Italy is the fifth highest in a quick comparison with the 38 OECD countries. The best intervention at the moment would be to act on the wedge, lowering it.
Increasing pay is a positive idea, but it is not enough
According to Ricchiuti, increasing pay is possible, but only up to a certain point, after which not much else can be done. Companies are suffering a lot in this historical period. For this reason, we are led to think that with a possible increase in the cost of labor, they would be excluded from the market, at the same time determining important repercussions on employment levels.
Minimum wage, according to the Fdl group leader it is a scam, here’s why
Introducing the minimum wage by law at 9 euros per hour, all paid for by the employer, could damage especially small craft businesses. Large companies have national contracts that go beyond this figure. The starvation contracts that have recently been signed, forexample those of private security, are the clear and evident representation of the failure of the unions. The latter, according to Ricchiuti, are trying to clear their conscience by riding the demagogic wave of the opposition.
The deputy head of the Department of Enterprises and Productive Worlds of Fratelli d’Italia, would like to ask the Democratic Party a question: “Isn’t a million VAT number terminations enough for you in the decade with you in government? Double? The problem of poor work exists and must be addressed, but without causing further cessations of activity and proliferation of undeclared work”.
The leader of the FdI group in the Chamber Tommaso Foti, denounces a scam plain and simple in the new bill that provides for the minimum wage, because it is signed for the minimum wage, while in the opposition decree there is talk of entry into force from November 15, 2024. Obviously there are points to be clarified and it must be done as soon as possible.
