Against the gender gap for women, the League aims at stopping joint bank accounts

An autonomous current account, into which to credit one's salary if employed, the first step towards women's freedom. Senator Elena Murelli (League) is convinced of this, the first signatory of a bill to oblige employers to credit their employees' salaries exclusively to personal current accounts.

'Already as of 2018 it is mandatory for the employer to pay the salary to a bank account or a traceable system,' Murelli explains to Parliament 24. But unfortunately the system, the law, does not directly clarify that the salary must be paid to the employee himself. In this case, the law therefore unfortunately allows joint current accounts and generates the so-called financial gender gap, in which the wages paid, when the woman is a worker, can be directly controlled by the cohabitee rather than by the husband himself. The same can be for any kind of worker. Then in that case we also deal with the issue of caporalato'.

Hence the decision to introduce the bill AS 763 'which directly obliges the employer to pay wages into a bank account specifically in the name of the worker, or in this case the woman worker. Because unfortunately only 1 in 4 women, so 30%, who have a joint bank account and do not have their own bank account"