Minimum wage, agreement reached on EU directive

Agreement on minimum wage in the EU reached. The European Council announced that overnight the negotiators of the Council and those of the European Parliament reached a preliminary political agreement on the draft directive on adequate minimum wages in the 27. Read also On the EU directive on the minimum wage was reached in trilogue in the night in Strasbourg “a historic agreement. For the first time the European Union sets criteria for adequate and fair minimum wages and to combat unfair competition and social dumping”, announces M5S MEP Daniela Rondinelli. “This directive – he argues – represents a Copernican revolution for the Italian labor market stained by over 300 pirate contracts that have fueled the shameful phenomenon of the working poor: over 3 million underpaid citizens who are not entitled to a fair wage and therefore to a decent standard of living “.” This directive – he continues – will also lead to an upward convergence of the wages of all workers and will put an end to the scourge of free internships and traineeships. For the 5 Star Movement this is a general theme priority. The skyrocketing inflation that is eroding the purchasing power of Italians requires an acceleration in the process of transposing the directive, waiting for the last minute would mean turning away from millions of workers who are unable to make it to the end of the month ” . “Not applying it, as some center-right exponents would like, would mean exposing our country to European sanctions and a dangerous conflict with the European Court of Justice. and in record time the European directive on minimum wages “, he concludes.