The Cnel abolishes the minimum wage. The assembly adopted the final document by a majority vote, which will be presented within the 60-day deadline set by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, to whom President Renato Brunetta personally gave the text in the evening. CGIL, UIL, and USB voted no, while Legacoop abstained. Meanwhile, opposition is growing. "I thank President Brunetta and all of the Cnel directors for their prompt and efficient work," Meloni says instead. - According to the technical research, the Italian labor market fully adheres to the parameters established by the European directive on an acceptable minimum wage. More than 95% of private sector employees participate in collective bargaining, excluding the agricultural and domestic sectors. This implies that a statutory minimum hourly rate is not the best weapon for combating bad working conditions and low earnings." The text strengthens "the traditional way" of collective bargaining. Furthermore, it contends that "the mere introduction of a legal minimum wage would solve neither the great issue of poor labor nor the practice of contractual dumping, nor would it give greater strength to collective bargaining”. And the Prime Minister adds how "it is rather necessary to plan and implement a series of organic measures and interventions as part of a multi-year action plan. It is the road that the government plans to adopt as quickly as possible, taking into account as much as possible the indications and ideas expressed in the text by representatives of the social forces represented in the Cnel as well as those who will emerge from the opposition”.
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