(Finance) – The unions are once again asking for a discussion table to discuss the tax reform and how safeguard the purchasing power of wages. “The theme for us today is to reduce taxes mainly to employees and retirees, those who pay taxes every year to the last cent”, said the secretary of the CISL. Luigi Sbarra, speaking at the Rimini Meeting. And among the priorities it indicates the fight against tax evasionwhich weighs almost 100 billion euros a year on the state coffers, and the tax reduction of productivity wages and welfare agreements in the private and public sectors.
As for the pensions Welcome Quote 41 to overcome the “hateful staircase” that would reappear with the return to the Fornero Law and to “reinvest” part of the resources saved with the previous regime and with Quota 100.
“We must defend and protect families, employees and retirees”Sbarra reiterated, adding “there is an emergency that must be faced today with the current government and there is in the perspective the need for anyone who wins the elections to open up to dialogue, confrontation, participation with the social forces on contents of our social agenda “.
For the trade unionist the minimum wage by law it does not solve the problem of low wages and those who pursue it “only sow illusions”, because in Italy it is necessary to raise salaries and also the value of pensions. “It is an issue linked to the fact that the country is not growing and there is no productivity”, underlines the secretary of the CISL.
“The theme of the pact for work it has long been at the heart of our social agenda. We claimed the need to give a strong acceleration in the confrontation with the institutions on an issue that is decisive for us for the present and the future of the country “, recalled Sbarra, specifying” we must move away from the illusion that work can be created by decree or with an ink sketch in the Official Gazette “.
Even the Labor Minister Andrea Orlando aims to achieve a as long as it holds “holds three things together” and that is minimum wagesreduction of tax wedge and the renewal of contracts.
Orlando admitted that the demographic curve is having a “significant impact” on the labor market and stated that a “paradigm shift” and that we worry about work as a “scarce resource that must be guarded”. Hence the need for a social dialogue, a confrontation and a social pact, considering that the PNRR has allocated 4.5 billion of investments in active policiesan “unprecedented” figure.