During her investiture speech on May 22, Emma Marcegaglia, the new leader of the Confindustria, gave a first response to the guidelines adopted by the three union federations on the reform of the conventional system (see our dispatch No. 080377). She proposes to lighten national collective conventions and to give more space to company agreements to link wage increases to productivity and results. (Ref. 080434)
In her speech, the boss of bosses acknowledged that the guidelines adopted by the union federations (see our dispatch No. 080377) are “an important starting point”, but she also highlighted bones of contention: “Many of these propositions are not acceptable, such as that to index wages on prices”, or that on the development of local collective conventions, which would lead to “heavier conventional levels.” About unions’ request for a new tool to upgrade wages, she said that although in the past
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