The centre left is ready and now
stronger to make a push to introduce a minimum wage of nine
euros an hour in Italy, Democratic Party (PD) leader Elly
Schlein said Wednesday.
She said the PD had been strengthened by the high number of
signatures it had collected for a petition on the issue across
the country.
The issue of poor work has been a hot topic in Italy since
opposition parties presented a joint bill to introduce a legal
minimum wage of nine euros gross per hour in June.
However, while saying such a provision could be applied to some
categories of workers as part of all-round efforts to combat low
salaries, Premier Giorgia Meloni has ruled out
tackling the problem with a single, generic law and asked the
National Council for Economics and Labor (CNEL) to come up with
an alternative in time for the presentation of the 2024 budget
bill, which is around the corner.
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