He worked 12 months a year for a security company, but despite the application of the national sector contract, he received a salary lower than the basic income, around 640 net .

The effective hourly wage of the lady, 3.96 euros per hour , even made her live below the poverty line, estimated by Istat at 840 euros. Therefore, the Milan labor judge established an anti-Constitutional wage. Because article 36 of the Charter establishes that "the worker has the right to remuneration proportionate to the quantity and quality of his work and in any case sufficient to ensure for himself and his family a free and dignified existence".

In the dock, in the case in which the woman was supported by the Adl Cobas, is Civis, an important private security company with registered office in Milan . The employee, employed in the doorman service in a large-scale distribution warehouse, lives in Padua instead.

Another twenty similar cases would be pending there, explains Mauto Zanotto, of Adl Cobas. "Not only in private companies, such as Civis - he says - but also in public employment sectors, Esu, hospitals, the Revenue Agency".

With the sentence in favor of the worker, Judge Tullio Perillo sentenced Civis to pay an extra gross compensation of 372 euros for each month (over 6,700 in total), or the difference between the pay paid and that expected for a concierge service .

«It is a historic victory – exults Zanotto of Adl Cobas – which also paves the way for other workers in the same situation in Italy, around 100 thousand. And above all he tells the unions that had signed this collective, in the specific case CGIL and Cis, that those starvation contracts must not be signed ».

The president of the Movimento 5 Stelle Giuseppe Conte also intervened on the matter: «Figures like this do not allow you to live a dignified life: they are hunger wages, which violate what is written in our Constitution in art. 36".

(Unioneonline/L)