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Green light from the EU Council to the European minimum wage. Orlando: “Good news”

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Green light from the EU Council to start negotiations for the introduction of the European minimum wage. The OK to the Commission’s proposal came from the meeting of the European ministers for Labor and Social Policies, marking the formal start of the negotiation process with the European Parliament, which has already given the green light to the procedure.
“A fair remuneration that guarantees a decent standard of living is one of the principles of the European pillar of social rights – writes the Council in a note -. To improve working and living conditions, this draft law establishes a framework to promote adequate levels of legal minimum wages, promote collective bargaining on fixing and improve effective access to minimum wage protection for those workers who are entitled to a minimum wage “.
Countries with high collective bargaining coverage, the note continues, tend to have a smaller share of low-wage workers and higher minimum wages than those with low collective bargaining coverage. “That is why ministers agreed that countries should promote the strengthening of the capacity of the social partners to engage in collective bargaining. If their collective bargaining coverage is less than 70%, they should also establish an action plan to promote collective bargaining. ‘

“The EU directive for the introduction of the minimum wage gives a strong response to two phenomena that characterize the labor market: wage dumping and the presence of many poor workers, which unfortunately mark the Italian labor market”. Thus the Minister of Labor, Andrea Orlando, underlining that the green light to start negotiations is “good news for Europe but also for Italy”. This is “an important step in the direction of building a social Europe”, underlined Orlando, explaining that “the directive defines the path through which countries can strengthen bargaining”.

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