@gabrielesvelto @zbrown
20 hours / month? that would be pretty good (25€/h)
500€ / month for 8h per week would be.. okish for some kind of intern job
but much less (like 500€ for 4 * 20h would be) isn't
@Doomed_Daniel @zbrown I meant 20h/week, corrected my previous toot because it was unclear
@gabrielesvelto @zbrown
ok, that definitely is exploitative.
probably legal though, according to Wikipedia Italy doesn't have minimum wage; and even if they did, about 6€/h is the minimum wage in Portugal or Cyprus (other examples from German Wikipedia: Germany 12.82€, Spain 8.37€, Greece 5.60€, Hungary 4.23€, USA 6.70€)
@Doomed_Daniel @gabrielesvelto from what I could grasp earlier there's no singular minimum, but there is some system, albeit seemingly weak, that much as our former Wage Councils did sets out industry specific minimum conditions — but I don't speak Italian, so there were limited sources I could look at
I suppose local cost of living is variable, but even so I'd have thought everywhere would have got to at least 8 if not 10 by now 😬
@zbrown @Doomed_Daniel yes, there is no global minimum but there are minimums for specific contract types. In his case an entry-level contract for an IT professional would net him at least 1500€ which is still not much by EU standards, but you can see just how much they're ripping him off.