Promotion of collective bargaining on Wage-Setting (Article 4)

It is absolutely undisputed that since the starting of the decisional process in 2020 the EU legislative action on minimum wages has been driven by a sort of mantra affirming that ‘Countries with a higher collective bargaining coverage tend to have a lower proportion of low paid workers’ . It is on the basis of such correlation that the EU abandoned the strategies of collective bargaining marginalization pursued in the previous decades, to discover itself as an ardent advocate of it. With all the limits discussed in the essay, Art. 4 of the Directive is the manifesto of such a new approach.