provisional estimates released by ISTAT on September 16, stemming from recognition OROS (Employment, Wages and Social Security Contributions) on wages, social security and labor costs per unit of work full-time equivalent (Ula) have revealed in the second quarter of 2008, a trend increase in gross pay by 3.0 percent over the same quarter last year, the average of the whole industry and services. Adjusted for seasonal effects, however, pay for Ula marked a decline of 2.5 percent. The National Statistics Institute charges that reduce the exhaustion of the effects were temporary produced a marked increase in short-term earnings of fact in the first quarter. Emerges as a trend growth rate of earnings for Ula, in the second quarter of this year, 4.1 per cent in industry and 1, 9 per cent in services. The industry has suffered less this fall, having recorded a 1.9 per cent less than the previous quarter, while the services sector has decreased by 2.5 per cent (both sectors net of seasonal effects) . The industrial sector registered an increase trend is more pronounced than the extraction of minerals, an increase of 12.2 percent. The cause is mainly find two factors: the supply of one-time gains and tabular arising from the renewal of a national labor contract and payment of company bonuses much greater than the previous year in a large enterprise. The tertiary sector in which there was a greater increase of salaries, is that hotels and restaurants, an increase of 4.1 percent. Here too, we are continuing to grow substantially increase the provision of related tabular set by the national labor contract recently renewed. A reduction in remuneration (albeit slightly: - 0.3 percent) occurred in the monetary and financial sector, linked slip effect in July of premiums normally paid in June in a few large banks. Finally, a summary of the dynamics of salaries and social security costs, labor costs for Ula, in the second quarter of 2008, tends to be increased by 3.1 percent, including 4.3 percent in industry and 2, 1 per cent in services. The values \u200b\u200bthat emerge from the survey, although temporary, can not be considered satisfying. The issue of wages was one of the most discussed topics of the last campaign against the strong impact of the social context. Intent to receive his salary, Italian workers have repeatedly suffered from reading a paycheck between lowest in Europe. Over the last fifteen years wages have also maintained a trend in point, as they have been flattened by the signing of the Protocol of 23 July 1993. That, despite good intentions, especially in a phase affected by the financial turmoil, has given birth to a son so much unwanted as the erosion of wages. The agreements of 1993, even though they had the merit of a formal method of consultation, converted from occasional structural, have hardened the industrial action that has lost grip with the dynamics of inflation. In the frame of the so-called incomes policy, the recovery of inflation is provided by the collective agreement national associations, and if the two-year renewal of the economic part is affected by the delays, the protection of workers' wages is guaranteed thanks to the provision of holiday compensation contract (whose benchmark is the rate of inflation and not real) . However, the system defined by the protocol is highly bureaucratized and, as has often reiterated Labour Minister Maurizio Sacconi, characterized by a markedly apathetic tendency, which resulted in the leveling of wages and productivity. The way forward, therefore, to emerge from the risk of stagnating wages and productivity? Sacconi the first step has already done it, facilitating the work extraordinary: the workers, on an experimental basis from 1 July 2008 to 31 December 2008, benefiting from a personal income tax reduced to 10 percent on the work beyond the normal time. The lower tax by up to a maximum of three thousand euro gross and is aimed at those workers who in 2007 have not received an income of over thirty thousand employees € gross. The economic action, which is likely to be extended into 2009, will involve the gradual shift from a tax reduction experimental (and temporary) in structural, depending on availability. Facing such tax breaks on overtime, incentives and rewards business of course, that in the future will involve all workers, regardless of income. Such an exercise respond efficiently to market demands and requests of Avenue of Astronomy, as inevitable as a factor raises productivity growth, which in a not too distant future could be supported by a new model of wealth distribution produced, which captures employee participation in the profits of the company (according to the German model), the turning point in the relationship between capital and labor. Productivity revival passing thus through the use of results, but which, however, so inescapable need for reform of the contractual model, the duration of intervening contract, the weight of the second-level bargaining and parameter estimates of inflation. In this regard, the proposed reform of the Confederation of contracts solves these three key points: the length of the transition from four to three-year contract renewal, increase the role of enterprise bargaining, with rewarding effects in relation to productivity (workers who do not enjoy second-level bargaining are, however, protected by a process of wage guarantee), replacing the index with a target inflation index revisionary (three years), free of certain items of imported inflation and made by a third party. The new contract is designed experimental (four years) and replace the one set by the Protocol of July 1993, which is appreciated in the back of the credit for a period of crisis, but does not feel the lack, if not for a resurgence of nostalgia. Alessio Maniscalco
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