Italy: government reaffirms opposition to minimum wage introduction

Responding in passing to the opposition’s call for a national minimum wage, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni pointed to government efforts to boost workers’ purchasing power by cutting social security contributions on wages. In a speech delivered on 26 May at the Trento Economy Festival, she said: “I believe that lowering social security contributions and putting more money in the pockets of workers is much more useful than a legal minimum wage, which is a good initiative philosophically b