“We entrepreneurs have the problem of finding people to hire, not firing them: the data show that despite the release of layoffs, despite all the crises, we need to hire people. Then we see a provision (the Aid decree, awaiting publication in the Official Gazette, ed.), Like the last one, where they are given on a one-off basis to those who take the citizenship income that in my opinion has no reason to exist, is a disincentive to find work “. The president of Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi, mentioned it during a long conversation at the theater with Beppe Severgnini, in Crema.
The failure of active labor policies
The number one of Confindustria recalled that the position of the employers’ association is not against citizenship income as an instrument to fight poverty but considers it a failure as an instrument for active employment policies. “Because it is one thing to fight against poverty, one thing is to support social equity, another is to create jobs”.
Giving 200 euros is a populist maneuver
Returning to the topic of how to increase workers’ wages, Bonomi said: «You can’t always do things with slogans. I am an entrepreneur, I speak with numbers, with concrete facts: do we really want to intervene or make slogans in the low income brackets? Giving 200 euros is a populist maneuver ». Are we already in the electoral campaign? “Since September of last year with the administrative”.
If politics is art for the future, I don’t see artists
When asked which politician could be a candidate to lead the country in the future and had the qualities to give the answers that the industrialists ask for, Bonomi replied: «Otto Von Bismarck said that politics is not an exact science but an art. If you see artists in politics, tell me. “