Minister Orlando in Genoa: “Minimum wage of 10 euros? The figure must be established with the social dialogue”
Genoa. The minimum wage is “a viable path”but “the fundamental question is also how to pronounce this figure. It’s a lot it is important that it is defined by a social dialogue procedure, this is the path followed by all the more advanced countries that have introduced it ”. She said it Andrea OrlandoMinister of Labor and leader of the Democratic Party in the Chamber for electoral policies, on the sidelines of a national meeting in Genoa with Enrico Letta’s secretary.
According to Orlando i 10 euros sir for minimum wages, also proposed by the world of the left inside and outside the left coalition, are not a dogma: “It is not a kind of riff in which there is a kind of random number, but a path of dialogue between the social partners and between social partners and institutions ”, he comments. On the other hand, “if we look at the current cost of living, such an indication seems to me to be appropriate”.
In general, the Ligurian minister continues, “we need to revise a prognosis that thought that the country’s competitiveness would pass an increase in flexibility. Many things have changed: the development model, how they are produced. In part that recipe did not work and in part it is no longer current, so much so that European countries are reflecting on how to review their labor market, even for a very simple and all in all new reason: today for the first time we have great resources to invest on the subject of skills. It is evident that, if a person has to invest in his skills, he has to constantly change the way he works and adapt his personality, you cannot ask him at the same time to be in a condition of pre-age and uncertainty for many years. It is the model that today calls for a profound change, unless we want to compete with countries that focus only on reducing the cost of labor, but it is not the path that can be followed ”.
And as autumn approaches in great strides, Orlando confirms the goal of the ceiling on the price of gas to put a stop to expensive energy: “It is very important that at the European level this response is given, which must be structural because this shock situation on the energy market will last even when the war is over and it was present before”. The big energy companies are also in the sights: Then we have to carry out a colossal redistribution operation: the path that has been followed with the taxation of extra-profits must continue. There are sectors in which the profitability, not due to the growth of the sector but due to the conditions that have arisen, has increased exponentially, and sectors that suffer and risk going completely out of business. This is an operation that goes through many things, for example with the introduction of a global minimum tax on large digital subjects, a line that is hindered by Salvini’s friends, by Orban and company ”.