Labour Minister Nunzia Catalfo
said Monday that a new minimum wage must be linked to collective
bargaining.
"The minimum wage must be closely related to collective
bargaining," she told reporters in the House during a confidence
debate on the new government led by Premier Giuseppe Conte.
She said the new minimum wage would not be put into the next
budget, with an existing bill allowed to take its course
instead.
Catalfo would not be drawn upon whether the wage would be
nine euros, or higher.
Catalfo is a member of the senior government partner, the
anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S).
The junior partner is the centre-left Democratic Party (PD).
The two main partners are joined in Conte's government by the
small leftwing Free and Equal /LeU) party.
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