A national minimum wage was introduced in January 2022. The measure promised by the government follows talks between social partners, launched at the end of last summer. The minimum wage announced will be around €1,000 per month, which equals 52.1% of the average wage recorded in the third quarter of 2021 (€1,916) and, as a relative level, would be among the highest in the EU. Employers, meanwhile, are calling for measures to ensure ‘flexibility’, most notably ‘review mechanisms’, and do not want the minimum wage to apply to certain professions.
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