Minimum wage, what would change in Italy with the 9 euro threshold – Economy

Rome, 7 June 2022 – How would Italy work at 9 euros an hour if the bill on the minimum wage were to pass, under examination by the Senate Labor Commission, by the former Grillino Minister Nunzia Catalfo? Which categories of workers would benefit? And who, on the contrary, would even risk losing out? A map can be useful to focus on the saved, but also the submerged of the possible mandatory basic pay established by law. Below the threshold of 9 euros There are approximately 4.6 million workers under the limit of 9 euros per hour gross, about 30% of the total. But if we go into more detail, it turns out that the share is 20% in the private sector, 35% among agricultural workers and even reaches 90% of domestic workers. Increasing the hourly wage to 9 “clean” euros (adding severance pay, contributions, thirteenth and so on) means transferring 8.4 billion euros to workers’ pockets, according to INPS data. If, on the other hand, the 9 euros also include the other additional items, the workers who would see more money in their pockets are 2,840,000, with 3.4 billion euros in extra wages. It is clear, therefore, that the first thing to be defined – and that the Catalfo proposal leaves open – is the quantitative notion of minimum wage itself. The “underwater” categories Apart from home helps and carers, under the hypothesized minimum – as the accompanying report of the Catalfo proposal indicates, considering the collective agreements that are among the most applied according to the data provided by INPS – other categories of workers: those in the tourism sector (with a minimum hourly rate of 7.48 euros), those of cooperatives in social and welfare services (7.18 euros), employees of companies in the public business, collective and commercial catering sectors ( 7.28 euros), those of clothing (7.09 euros). But in …