By 1 May, new legislation comes into effect that will impose tougher sanctions on employers who fail to pay the minimum wage that has been negotiated in their sector. Restrictions on migration to Austria (and Germany) from the EU Member States in central and Eastern Europe end by then and the ÖGB trade union confederation argued for the new law on minimum wages to ensure that neither domestic nor foreign employers could exploit the opening of the labour market to avoid paying collectively agreed minimum wage rates.
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