CUB: Ilva decree amendment risks return to wage caps

An amendment to the Ilva Decree, presented by Brothers of Italy in the Senate, could determine the return of "wage cages", that is, the remuneration of employees linked to the cost of living in the place of work. This is what the CUB claims. announcing protests in workplaces and sit-ins in front of Palazzo Madama, next week when it could be the rule was approved. With the amendment in question, "in paragraph 3, it is established that the judge can determine the remuneration only if it is the serious inadequacy of the remuneration standard has been ascertained established by the collective bargaining agreement for the sector and the area where the service is carried out, taking into account the levels of labor productivity and cost of living indices, as confirmed by ISTAT". Paragraph 4 "provides that the Judge, having ascertained the seriousness inadequacy referred to in paragraph 3 and the remuneration indicated proportionate and sufficient as referred to in Article 36 of the Constitution, cannot condemn the employer to payment of salary or contribution differences for the period" prior to when the worker manifested the own claim, if the employer himself "has the salary standard provided for by the contract was applied collective agreement stipulated for the sector and the area where it will be carried out of the performance". "It is evident - the union denounces - the risk that the Judge, overcoming provisions of national contracts, can to have to differentiate workers' wages, based on the place of work where the service was carried out part of the worker, thus favoring, in fact, a differentiation wage as expected with the wage cages. A dangerous return to the past that must be prevented, under penalty of risk of encouraging wage dumping and competition reduction among workers within the national territory".