(ANSA) - PALERMO, 04 JUN - "On the minimum wage I see positive openings from all sides, there are those who want it cooked and those who want it raw. more organic character and which allows an immediate response to be given to workers who find themselves on a low-income and low-wage basis ".
Thus the Minister of Labor, Andrea Orlando, responding to icronists in Palermo on the minimum wage.
According to the Minister of Public Administration, Renato Brunetta, "the minimum wage by law is not good because it is against our cultural history of industrial relations. We do not throw the child with the bathwater and value our industrial relations. The wages cannot be moderate if they have to match. productivity, "he said at the Festival of Economics in Trento.
For his part, the governor of the Bank of Italy, IgnazioVisco, also at the Festival of Economics said that "well-studied the minimum wage is a good thing", "it has various positive effects - he explained - the risk lies in the level because if it is excessive it can lead to not employing people who may instead want to work below that level and who have a productivity substantially not able to reach that level there, but I think it is not such an important thing. What is important is not to tie automatisms to the minimum wage that then they can cost us, for example a minimum wage that is fully indexed to consumer prices if it becomes the reference model for all wages, all bargaining, directly incorporates that automatic mechanism. "
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