Trade unions: interventions are positive, but watch out for thresholds and time limits
For CGIL, CISL and UIL, the provisions included in the Budget Bill support bargaining but provide for criteria that are too selective on workers. And they relaunch the indexation of deductions and tax thresholds
Piace l’attenzione alla contrattazione, convince lo sforzo per sostenere la produttività, ma lascia perplessi il meccanismo che aggancia gli aumenti salariali all’introduzione di soglie. Il dubbio, soprattutto per l’imposta agevolata del 5% sugli incrementi retributivi da corrispondere ai dipendenti del settore privato al momento dei rinnovi contrattuali è che il limite di reddito a 28mila euro, a conti fatti, riduca l’intervento a un numero ristretto di lavoratori, creando disparità tra loro. «Riteniamo che nel disegno di legge di Bilancio ci siano alcuni aspetti positivi, come la tassazione agevolata sui contratti di produttività e la detassazione degli incrementi retributivi», spiega Mattia Pirulli, segretario confederale della Cisl per il Mercato del Lavoro e la Contrattazione. «Tuttavia - continua - quest’ultima misura esclude un numero consistente di lavoratori. Ad esempio quelli del commercio, perché hanno rinnovato il contratto l’anno scorso e i metalmeccanici, perché la loro sogl
Time limits
There was a cold reception from CGIL, because in addition to the income threshold, the rule also provides for a time window - renewals in 2025 and 2026 - which inevitably triggers a distorting effect between workers who renewed before and workers who will do so after.
'The limitation of the threshold and of the renewal years,' urges Nicola Marongiu, secretary for the Contracting and Labour Market Area of the CGIL, 'make the measure insufficient. On the contrary, a broader and more structural intervention is needed.
It goes without saying that we appreciate the reduction of the substitute tax for performance bonuses from 5 per cent to 1 per cent. 'We would, however, have preferred,' says Marongiu, 'that action be taken on the issue of payroll taxation, rather than continuing with the tax relief on productivity contracts, because although the latter have grown in recent years, they still cover a limited number of workers, around 5 million.
A boost to bargaining
According to the CISL, these are in any case interventions that go in the direction of strengthening second-level bargaining: 'We believe,' Mattia Pirulli continues, 'that the intervention on second-level bargaining is positive. We are in fact convinced that decentralised bargaining is fundamental for the redistribution of wealth and the strengthening of productivity. We had, however, asked for a further step forward, namely the overcoming of the criterion of the incrementality of the parameters for the result bonuses, which would allow greater access and a relaunch of decentralised bargaining, which cannot be thought of only as a company. That is, territorial bargaining must also be resumed. All this would substantially help the growth of wages and the recovery of the age-old problem of productivity. With regard to decentralised bargaining, to date,' he concludes, 'the refinancing of the participation fund is lacking.
