Agreement reached on EU directive for minimum wages. This was announced by the Employment and Social Affairs Commission of the European Parliament (EMPL) on his account Twitter. “The new rules will protect the dignity of work and make sure that work pays”, writes the president of the European Commission on Twitter. Ursula von der Leyen.
“The presidency of the Council and the negotiators of the European Parliament have reached a provisional political agreement on the draft directive on adequate minimum wages in the EU”, reads a note that the European Council issued at dawn. “The new law, once definitively adopted, will promote the adequacy of legal minimum wages and thus contribute to achieving decent working and living conditions for European employees”, states the statement.
Schmit: “Work poverty has passed. No taxation on Italy on minimum wages”
The details were presented during a conference by the commissioner for labor Nicolas Schmit. “One of the main proposals of this directive was an adequate minimum wage in Europe. Nobody should be in poverty if they work, and this is the right tool to make sure that poverty should be a thing of the past at work,” he said. . “In Italy there is a very strong and broad debate on how to strengthen a collective bargaining system in your country and eventually introduce a minimum wage. We will not impose a minimum wage politically, that’s not the problem. And I think this tool is a contribution to this debate “, he added.
The directive is likely to be operational from mid-June. After today’s “Trilogue” green light, the European Parliament should now give the last go-ahead. The aim is for ratification by the EU Council of Labor Ministers convened for June 16 in Luxembourg.
Orlando: “Important step for social Europe”
“Europe presents itself with good news at the work of the OECD in Paris. The okay to the directive on the minimum wage opens up a perspective to combat poor work and to give all workers a decent wage”, commented the minister of work Andrea Orlando “Italy – he underlined – fought for this important result which extends protections and rights to European workers”. “An important step to make a social and work Europe”