ROMA (ITALPRESS) – Over 200 “pirated” contracts on 250 in the tertiary sector. A loss that can reach up to 12 thousand euros per year for each worker involved. These are the issues of the contractual dumping denounced by Mauro Lusetti, vice president of Confcommercio, in an interview with Claudio Brachino for the television magazine Italpress Economy.
Confcommercio represents over 700 thousand companies in the tertiary, trade, catering, transport and distribution sectors. Lusetti recalls that contracts signed by the category association concern more than 2.2 million employees in the associated companies, but are applied to more than 5 million people in total. “The contract of the tertiary is the one most applied in the Italian economic landscape,” the vice-president points out.
For months Confcommercio has started a political and associative battle against dumping contracts. “More than 100 thousand workers are subject to these contracts that provide lower compensation from 6 thousand to 12 thousand euros per year than the contracts signed by Confcommercio with Cgil, Cisl and Uil – continues Lusetti. These agreements, while formally complying with the laws, do not have the improved conditions that contain contracts signed by us.” Among the most serious deficiencies the absence of the thirteenth monthly, reduced covers for diseases and permits, lack of elements related to bilaterality.
“It is a pathology of a free market in which the rules are very labile,” says Lusetti, who calls on the institutions: “We are strongly asking to codify the most representative organizations in the world of work, businesses, workers and to ensure that contracts signed by them have universal value.”
On the proposal from the Government to the flat tax applied to the wage increases provided for in national contracts, Lusetti underlines: “There are lights and shadows. The proposal plans to detach the contractual increases provided for by the contracts signed from 2025, but in 2024 Confcommercio signed contracts for millions of people, with the first increases already taken last year. We would be excluded from this legislation and believe that this goes exactly against a logic of consistency and uniformity in the treatment of workers.”
The category association is working with the institutions and the government to overcome what Lusetti calls “a serious vulnus”.
On the front of the cost of life, Lusetti points out that contractual renewals, although having accelerated, have not yet fully recovered the cumulated inflation rate of the previous years, and this leads to “stop consumption. If domestic demand is not distributed, it is a problem to rely only on exports.”
To put more money in your pocket to the Italians, according to Lusetti, you need interventions on multiple fronts. “It is necessary to act on state efficiency to lower the level of taxation of salaries which is still high,” says Confcommercio’s vice-president, who appreciates government interventions on the reduction of the tax wedge. Moreover it is important “the corporate welfare, on which Confcommercio points a lot, through the bilaterality shared with the unions, and that can put most of the workers in the conditions of having adequate income”.
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