(corrects name in slug) Rome, July 24 - Vincenzo Boccia, head of industrial employers' group Confindustria, on Tuesday said the government's so-called 'dignity decree' against precarious work was "antithetical" to the government contract drawn up between the two partners, the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) and the anti-migrant Euroskeptic League (L) party. "Without any polemic, I mist say the dignity decree is antithetical to the government contract, which hinges on two elements, the basic income and the flat tax," he said. "Instead, it hikes the costs of steady contracts and the costs of dismissals", said Boccia. "It would be nice to know what League members think of it in terms of the flat tax, because citizens know how to tot up the algebraic sum of their taxes". M5S leader Luigi Di Maio, the industry and labour minister, is the architect of the decree. While denying it will produce 8,000 job losses a year as claimed by pensions agency INPS, he has acknowledged some criticism and says the government will insert incentives for firms to hire people on long-term stable contracts as the decree goes through parliament. Di Maio responded to Boccia Tuesday by saying "perhaps (Boccia) has not read the decree well. One thing is for sure, we don't need him to be able to interpret it. "The only opinion that counts for us is that of citizens, and from what I hear from everyone I meet, there was a dire need for the Dignity Decree". As well as fighting precarious jobs, the decree also combats offshoring and gambling ads.