"Quality bargaining and good work go hand in hand, we are with Minister Orlando on the establishment of the minimum wage by law".
The president of Cifa Italia and Fonarcom Andrea Cafà insisted on this on the sidelines of the Festival del Lavoro, in Bologna, after a meeting organized by Cifa and Fonarcom entitled 'Quality bargaining is representativeness'.
Several themes brought to the table, with the minimum wage at the center, but also collective bargaining and representativeness, which according to the director of the INL, Bruno Giordano "constitute three faces of the most important constitutional prism of labor law".
Regarding the minimum wage, it is necessary, according to Cafà, "to maintain the average of the most representative contracts as an anti-dumping measure".
Everything else, then, "must be done through collective bargaining".
"We cannot expect great productivity if workers are not paid well".
"Quality" is, therefore, the North Star that must guide the bargaining.
“In this way - continued Cafà - increasing productivity also increases wages, as is already the case in other European countries”.
But how is quality assessed?
"To evaluate the most representative contracts, it is necessary to have regard to contractual quality - argues the president of Cifa - Quality means not operating wage or other dumping, as well as favoring quality employment through additional protections such as continuous training and welfare supported by bilateralism.
Quality of bargaining and adherence to bilateralism should be considered as the new indicators for measuring the representativeness of trade unions ”.
For the former minister of labor Cesare Damiano, it is then necessary to “make a differentiation with respect to the different categories of employment.
“When we talk about the minimum wage we can't think of a universal measure, because not all jobs are the same,” he noted.
“For example, there are categories that are below the hourly wage of 7 euros, as in the case of domestic work, security guards, horticulturalists and agricultural workers.
In these situations, special interventions are necessary, keeping the collective agreement as a reference ".
It is also urgent to tackle the major issues of the renewal of contracts on natural expiry dates and the revision of the contractual holiday allowance, which today is too low and instead of encouraging renewal, produces the opposite effect ".
Without forgetting "to act on the tax wedge,
In this context, bargaining must remain open to all those actors and social partners who are able to bring concrete improvements to businesses and workers.
For the president of the Centro Studi InContra Salvatore Vigorini, “what really matters is the contents of the negotiations, not the signatories”.
"In this particular phase - for Vigorini - bargaining can and must self-reform in order to improve wage levels." Changes felt as necessary by all the speakers present at the debate, including the professor of the University of Verona Donata Gottardi and the Confsal Secretary General Angelo Raffaele Margiotta. Among the objectives, the enhancement of articles 36 and 39 of the Constitution, "to be read in all their propulsive and modern meaning,
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