Calderone says equal maternity-paternity leave better than minimum wage

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 25 - Labour Minister Marina Calderone said Wednesday that if she had to choose between the opposition's proposal for a minimum wage of nine euros an hour or making paternity leave equal to maternity leave, she would go for the latter. On Tuesday Premier Giorgia Meloni's ruling coalition sank a move in the Lower House for paternity leave to be raised from 10 days to the five months new mothers get on the grounds that financing for the measure was lacking, having already bloc...

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