The
cost of bills
and the recovery of
purchasing power
, eroded by double-digit inflation, the cut in the
tax wedge and pensions
with the annual adjustment of inflation checks with + 7.3% from next January, in waiting for interventions to avoid the Fornero staircase from 2023. And work, "the priority of priorities", says the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, to the unions in the first face to face at Palazzo Chigi with CGIL, CISL, UIL and also the 'Ugl.
On
Ita
"you have seen what has happened in the last few hours. When some of us had expressed doubts about how things were proceeding, they were not completely wrong, we are working on it", the premier would also have said, according to what is learned.
ANSA agency
Pensions: Giorgetti signs decree, + 7.3% since January - Economy
Adjustment to inflation (ANSA)
On the table of the first confrontation of the new government in the Green room with the social partners (on Friday there will be business associations) all the open topics, from emergencies to reforms, with requests and proposals land.
The premier listens and ensures the willingness to carry on the debate, putting aside "preconceptions" and ensuring transparency and loyalty but asking "an additional responsibility" from everyone: "We are facing the most difficult moment in the history of the Republic" .
The approach is "one of
total openness and respect
. Where this confrontation will take us will depend on the approach and availability of each of us", explains Meloni.
The unions appreciate dialogue ("an important method") but wait for the facts.
"In addition to an openness to confrontation, today we have not yet received any answers of merit", said the general secretary of the CGIL,
Maurizio Landini,
at the end of the meeting at Palazzo Chigi: therefore "the evaluation is suspended".
"We hope that in the coming weeks there will be further opportunities to discuss the merits of the budget law and the prospect linked to growth, development, quality and stability of work", said the general secretary of the CISL,
Luigi Sbarra
.
"Meloni has inaugurated a new season of social confrontation", underlines meanwhile the general secretary of the UGL,
Paolo Capone
.
Themes range from occupational safety to pensions.
A front on which to work with the first measures to be included in the maneuver, which however has "too narrow spaces", underlines Landini.
Hence, the request raised by the unions to widen the taxation on extra-profits beyond energy companies and to bring it to 35%: it would make it possible to raise 14 billion a year, calculates the number one of the UIL,
Pierpaolo Bombardieri.
On pensions, Quota 41 remains under study,
which should be accompanied by an age threshold (61-62 years) for next year - and which is not enough for Cgil, Cisl and Uil - pending the overall reform.
Of a system that today deals with "low pensions
and future ones risk being non-existent"
, acknowledges the Prime Minister herself.
Meanwhile, the signature of the Minister of Economy, Ginacarlo Giorgetti, arrives at the decree that starts from January 1st 2023 an adjustment of pensions equal to + 7.3%.
The increase, as envisaged by current legislation, was calculated on the basis of the percentage change that occurred in the consumer price indices provided by Istat on 3 November.
Considering the effect of the indexation of pensions to inflation, in the period 2022-2025, spending "will absorb resources for over 50 billion", says Giorgetti.
The current system provides for three bands for revaluation: 100% of inflation, or in full measure, for pensions up to 4 times the minimum (equal to approximately 523 euros),
There is also the issue of the tax authorities
and the request to confirm and, indeed, increase the deduction to 2% expected until the end of the year.
The unions say no to the flat tax, they ask for a "real" reform that increases the net payroll and affects tax evasion more.
And, to restore purchasing power to income, in addition to the cut of the tax wedge, the number one of the Uil brings the request to immediately de-tax the thirteenth to give relief to employees and pensioners and, then, to de-tax the contractual increases.
