2.3 billion euros are missing, net of national income tax and additional regional and municipal taxes, in the pockets of Italian employees in the first five months of the current year which, due to Covid-19, have been put into layoffs. Lombardy holds the record for the largest loss in net wages, equal to 22.2% of the national total (504 million euros), followed by Lazio where redundancies lose over 299 million euros net, and Veneto (205 million euros net ) and Campania (189 million euros net). The analysis was conducted by the Uil-Labor, Cohesion and Territory Service, which processed the data Inps of the authorized hours of wage integration on which the simulations were conducted on a gross annual salary of 20,980 euros (average salary of the private sector).
But how much does this loss affect individuals monthly wages of employees? “Between salary reduction and missed thirteenth and fourteenth accruals – explains Ivana Veronese, Uil confederal secretary –in five months, payrolls have lightened by an average of 19%. Against approximately 1.4 billion hours of layoffs authorized in the first five months of 2021, the beneficiaries have lost, on average up to now, 3,185 euros net “. Veronese continues: “In the more comprehensive reform of the social safety nets that the government is preparing to launch, as well as making the instrument universal and tying it to active policies, there is a need to revise the maximum ceilings of the subsidy of wage subsidies and their revaluation, which should be anchored to contractual increases and not only to the annual inflation rate “.
The Uil also awaits the discussion on social safety nets can go live next week. This was announced by the general secretary of the trade union organization, Pier Paolo Bombardieri, speaking at the Uilm national council, held in Rome, for the first time in attendance after the hardest phase of the pandemic. “The reform – underlines Bombardieri – it cannot be done at no cost, and therefore adequate resources are needed, and it must also be founded on two pillars: solidarity and insurance “. Basically, for Uil, the social safety nets will have to cover all female workers and all workers, but the burden cannot be passed on to general taxation: companies will have to do their part, perhaps even identifying a bonus-malus mechanism. Finally, it will be necessary to provide for active labor policies, to give centrality to the bilateral system and to build training courses and professional retraining.
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