MILANO – Faced with the rush of inflation, companies do not have the opportunity to increase wages, so the way to give workers respite cannot be that of taxation of increases. The president of Confindustria said so Carlo Bonomi speaking at the Unindustria assembly, returning to the long-distance confrontation with Minister Orlando. “Families and companies are suffering severely, we have to give answers and put more money in the pockets of Italians but the way is not the tax exemption of wage increases. Businesses have no room for wage increases, with the increase in prices of ‘ energy and commodities, “said Bonomi. “Whoever says I make you pay the wage increase less are people who have never attended a factory day”.
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Istat: “In 2022, risk of loss of purchasing power of 5 points”
Meanwhile, according to Istat, in 2022 the contractual wages in the annual average should grow by 0.8%. A modest advancement in the face of a forecast of price increases which in the current year should reach 5.8% and which already now observing the variation acquired, that is the figure that would be reelised in the event of zero variations until the end of the year. year, stood at 5.2%. “In the first quarter of 2022 – writes Istat – the growth of contractual wages remains contained. The duration of the contracts and the mechanisms for determining the contractual increases followed so far have determined a wage trend which, given the persistence of inflationary pressure, would lead to 2022, to a loss of purchasing power that can be estimated at almost five percentage points “.