The tax cut, with the 8 billion allocated and that the unions ask for is aimed at workers, "I think it should be mainly aimed in this direction. Businesses must be helped, but I believe that at this moment there is a theme of loss of power purchase of workers. If there is any space left, I believe attention should be paid to the small businesses that have suffered the most during the pandemic. "
Thus the Minister of Labor, Andrea Orlando, on Radio 24, indicating in these "the main priorities of this reasoning"
.
"The dialogue we had hoped for has taken the right path. It was a very positive confrontation. We still can and must work. It seems to me that yesterday has improved the picture of the situation",
Orlando
said
on Radio 24. in the aftermath of the meeting between the government and the unions, at Palazzo Chigi, on pensions and the tax authorities
. In particular on the subject of pensions, the minister remarked that the "main points" of the table that will start in December have been "identified and that" the will that emerged is to address the structural issues "of the system trying" to overcome the distortions " . The main points, he underlines, "are essentially three: how an element of flexibility is introduced, how a guarantee for young people is introduced and how the difference and the severity of the work are taken into account".
On the minimum wage "there are different ideas" but "certainly there is a problem of vertical loss of purchasing power and the difficulty of bargaining to cope with it. because if you don't want the minimum wage you have to adjust the bargaining rules in some way. If the bargaining remains firm, the minimum wage becomes an option ".
"We cannot accept the state of the art - he adds -, in the last three years Italian workers have lost the most in terms of purchasing power. It is a problem for them and a fall in domestic demand".