(Finance) – There is a clash in the House over the minimum wage. The majority in the commission, with an entirely replacement amendment approved in the commission by the centre-right, scuppered the unitary law proposal (except IV) transforming it into an enabling law and canceling the provision of a minimum legal wage of 9 euros gross per hour. An act to which the opposition responded by withdrawing their signature from the proposal. The work of the Chamber on the PDL on the minimum wage, after a suspension to allow parliamentarians to participate in the demonstration called by the Roman Jewish community, resumed at 8.30 pm. The explanations of vote and the final vote will take place tomorrow.
After the opposition’s amendment was rejected which aimed to rewrite the text of the Labor commission, the M5S president Giuseppe Conte tore up the text of the minimum wage bill in the Chamber. “You will not carry out this treacherous gesture in my name and in the name of the M5S. For this reason I am withdrawing my signature from this provision because you are making waste of the legal minimum wage. This battle has been slowed down, but we will win it because the country is with us ” he said With you.
“Meloni didn’t have the courage to make you vote against our proposal. He took a subterfuge, that of a majority that only accepts pressing buttons. You could have had a leap of dignity but instead nothing. You remained with your head bowed – he said in the Chamber of the Chamber secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein after the rejection of the opposition’s amendment to the PDL on the minimum wage -. You agree on the exploitation of workers.”
“I withdraw my signature from this bill, I do not intend and we do not intend to put our names and faces on an indecent act of political and institutional piracy – he stated Nicola Fratoianni –. You can do almost everything in parliamentary dialectics. What’s not right is transforming a text of a parliamentary initiative from the opposition into an enabling law from the government, it’s a slap in the face to Parliament.”
“I announce the withdrawal of my signature from the PDL on the minimum wage because there are no implementing decrees for the enabling laws. It will take you 18 months to deal with the progress and you will talk about the minimum wage much later. The initiative, therefore, takes away from this text” he said Matteo Richetti, Action group leader.
“It is not acceptable that a majority with your numbers is unable to vote against a widely shared opposition proposal before the country: you do not have the courage to press the red button and bury a reasonable measure that would have given an answer to millions of workers. You didn’t have the political courage. For this reason I withdraw my signature from the bill – said the secretary of +Europa, Riccardo Magi –. «The majority amendment to the law on the minimum wage not only distorts its meaning, but by transforming it into an enabling law it effectively hands over the entire issue to the Ministry of Labour, not only does Parliament bypass it, not only does it exploit the CNEL fourth institution of the State, but the discussion with the social partners also fails. On the one hand – he continued – it is said that we want to strengthen collective bargaining and on the other we are putting forward a legislative proposal which heavily enters into collective bargaining, marginalizing the most representative trade union and employer organizations from the debate. In these months of debate on the minimum wage we have learned the delicacy and complexity of the topic, so the guidelines set out in the text first signed by Rizzetto cannot reassure at all. First of all, as mentioned, the text does not guarantee some minimum wages to poor workers, but risks complicating the picture by making it even more uncertain which collective agreement to apply precisely in those sectors such as procurement, services and logistics which are instead those sectors where no only a law that simultaneously sets a minimum by law and eliminates pirate trading would be useful.”