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Businesses: no to the “blackmail” of tying aid to contracts

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Businesses: no to the “blackmail” of tying aid to contracts

An outcry by companies at the proposal of the Minister of Labor, Andrea Orlando, to create an agreement between the government and the social partners that makes an intervention in favor of companies subject to the renewal and adjustment of contracts, and therefore to the increase in wages.

“In an extremely critical phase for the Lombard and Italian industry generated by the increase in the costs of raw materials, by speculations on energy prices, by sanctions that indirectly impose sacrifices and difficulties in supplying even our companies and by a context international instability, binding economic aid to the renewal of contracts is inadmissible for Confindustria Lombardia – urges the president of Confindustria Lombardia, Francesco Buzzella -. This “social reward” approach, in addition to not considering that critical issues affect all businesses across the board, completely ignores the reality of the production world which sees 30% of businesses at risk of closure due to the unsustainability of production costs. Businesses obviously share the need for an increase in wages to support families and workers at this time of great difficulty, as well as to cope with rising inflation; the way to increase wages, as confirmed several times by Confindustria, is to cut taxes through a structural intervention that is finally incisive on the tax wedge ».

Simplification that does not solve

From Lombardy to Sicily the step is short, and the alarm is identical. An agreement between the government and the social partners that makes aid to companies conditional on the renewal and adjustment of contracts “is an oversimplification that does not solve the difficulties. It focuses on the effects but does not consider the causes of the problem. In short, it looks like a dance on the Titanic – added Alessandro Albanese, president of Confindustria Sicilia -. Therefore, structural measures are needed to ensure that our productive fabric is not destroyed in whole or in part ».

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On the same wavelength, the president of Confindustria Toscana, Maurizio Bigazzi: «I learned with amazement the proposal of Minister Orlando – he said -. It is a proposal that absolutely does not take into account the moment of great difficulty of companies, crushed by the increase in the costs of raw materials and energy products. To improve the competitiveness of the industrial system, a strong intervention is needed to cut the tax and contribution wedge which would also regenerate the purchasing power of wages ”.

Alarming picture

The point is that there are objective difficulties; the increase in the prices of raw materials and the costs of energy products initially slowed the recovery and now puts the resilience and competitiveness of our manufacturing industry in grave danger.

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