Italy's State pensions will go up by
2% in October, three months before they would usually go up at
the start of the year, according to the framework of a new aid
package to help people with the cost-of-living crisis that the
government presented to unions on Wednesday.
The package also features a cut in income and labour taxes set
to bring the labour-tax wedge down by 1.8%.
The unions said it was not enough.
"It is completely insufficient in quantitative terms," said
Maurizio Landini, the head of Italy's biggest trade-union
confederation, the CGIL.
"One billion euros is going to workers and 1.5 billion to
pensioners out of a total of 14.3 billion for the whole package.
"We are talking about figures that are absolutely insufficient
to address the problem".
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