(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 27 - The centre left is ready and now stronger to make a push to introduce a minimum wage of nine euros an hour in Italy, Democratic Party (PD) leader Elly Schlein said Wednesday.
    She said the PD had been strengthened by the high number of signatures it had collected for a petition on the issue across the country.
    The issue of poor work has been a hot topic in Italy since opposition parties presented a joint bill to introduce a legal minimum wage of nine euros gross per hour in June.
    However, while saying such a provision could be applied to some categories of workers as part of all-round efforts to combat low salaries, Premier Giorgia Meloni has ruled out tackling the problem with a single, generic law and asked the National Council for Economics and Labor (CNEL) to come up with an alternative in time for the presentation of the 2024 budget bill, which is around the corner. (ANSA).