ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “The economic context in which the budget maneuver is inserted has profoundly changed. In the face of an inflation which, according to the data recalled, has reached 5.4%, the increases in contractual wages are at 2.5%. We consider positive the choice to detach the wage increases resulting from contractual renewals, but it is important that the tax benefit also take into account the quality of the contracts applied. Not all renewals, in fact, guarantee the same level of economic protection to workers. For this reason, we propose that the benefits be recognized exclusively to contracts which ensure the economic treatment of reference of the respective sector. It is a measure that would allow to value quality bargaining and counter contractual dumping, without entailing additional charges for public finance.” Massimo Visconti, President of Confaccordo, said this, speaking at the meeting with the Government at Palazzo Chigi dedicated to the Law of Budget 2027.
During the meeting, Confaccordo presented a series of proposals aimed at protecting the purchasing power of workers, supporting employment and ensuring greater equity in the social security system.
Among the main demands are the application of the reduced rate of 5% also to the amounts recognized as a contractual holiday to the workers waiting for the renewal from over a year – an audience that, according to Istat data, affects about 1.1 million employees in the private sector – and the introduction of a single threshold of 40,000 euros for the detaxation of wage increases.
On the public employment front, the organization also proposes a derogation from the assumptional limits, with the possibility of raising turnover to 75% in offices characterized by serious shortages of staff. In the case of pensions, Confaccordo asks for full revaluation of pensions up to five times the minimum treatment for 2027.
“In the course of the meeting we found an openness and willingness to confront the government on some of the issues raised – said Francesco Prudenzano, Secretary General of Confaccordo –. These are themes which directly affect the economic condition of millions of workers and pensioners and which require concrete answers. We reaffirmed the need for a manoeuvre that does not limit itself to fiscal interventions, but which tackles in a structural way the problem of the loss of purchasing power, enhance the representational bargaining and support the functioning of public administration. Conflation will continue to follow the law of the Budget, keeping open dialogue with the Government so that the proposals submitted may find an adequate welcome.”.
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