Overview
- The Commissione Lavoro of the Chamber reworked a relators' amendment and removed the explicit clause that would have let minor or non‑representative contracts qualify for incentives by proving they were 'equivalent' to leader contracts.
- The reworked text nevertheless creates a statutory definition of Trattamento economico complessivo, specifying that fixed and continuous pay items plus contractual welfare benefits count when determining eligibility for the 'salario giusto' incentives.
- Opposition parties and the confederal unions Cgil, Cisl and Uil strongly protested and several opposition MPs left the commission session, criticizing the absence of Minister Marina Calderone and calling the procedure an abuse of Parliament.
- Parliamentary relators also raised the interim inflation adjustment for expired national contracts to 50% of IPCA and shortened the trigger from 12 months to 9 months while withdrawing some pro‑employer amendments put forward by Lega and Forza Italia.
- The vote in committee came ahead of a fast timetable: after Monday's commission action the full decree is scheduled for a confidence vote in the Chamber tomorrow, a step that will decide whether contractual welfare stays part of the eligibility test and affect up to about €1 billion in hiring incentives.