A new policy brief from the ETUI reveals that the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive is already having an impact on minimum wage-setting even though it doesn’t have to be transposed into national law until November this year. The latest data show a substantial nominal increase in statutory minimum wages in 15 out of the 22 EU countries with statutory minimum wages. The ETUI says that two factors are important here – first, high levels of inflation have continued to prevail across the EU, making safeguarding the purchasing power of minimum-wage earners a political priority; and second, the Directive’s reference values for adequate minimum wages of 60% of the median and 50% of the average wage.
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For more information, please contact Paul de Beer or Oana Ciuca, De Burcht (Scientific Bureau for the Dutch Trade Union Movement) p.t.debeer@uva.nl or the Head of communications at the ETUI, Mehmet Koksal mkoksal@etui.org. For previous full issues of the Collective bargaining newsletter please visit https://www.etui.org/Newsletters/Collective-bargaining-newsletter or consult the archive with all articles in our database at www.cbnarchive.eu.
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