The Regional Council is dragging on today, where the Five Star Movement's flagship bill on the so-called regional minimum wage is being discussed: Bill 58 ("Provisions for quality and safety in the workplace, to combat contractual dumping") stalled this afternoon due to a lack of a quorum.

The afternoon session was supposed to be preceded by a meeting of the second committee to examine the amendments proposed by the center-right to achieve the broadest possible approval of the text, but it was cancelled twice. The Chamber's proceedings then resumed intermittently in the late afternoon due to the absence of councilors from the majority parties allied with the Five Star Movement (M5S), the bill's sponsor. Numerous requests for a recess were received, including a meeting of President Todde's party, which wanted to end the matter immediately.

Among the center-right's attacks in the Chamber before the break was that of the leader of the Brothers of Italy ( FdI): "We all agree that Italian wages are low and that there are businesses that generate low-wage work. The problem is how to do it, how to combat low-wage work by intervening exclusively on regional contracts, but low-wage contracts are primarily found in private contracts, which are regulated by collective bargaining. You are the ones who are giving this legislative intervention a demagogic connotation because there's nothing in these lines about minimum wages."

Councilor Camilla Soru (Democratic Party) says, "The proposal says Sardinia is doing everything it can to protect the employment opportunities of Sardinian young men and women, avoiding rewarding those who win tenders by reducing labor costs and shifting the burden of risk onto workers. With this law, we're trying to put labor costs back at the center. And since the national government isn't doing it, at least the Region can get a head start on contracts that directly affect it."

(Unioneonline)

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