To understand the potential impact of the EU Minimum Wage Directive across the EU Member States and to monitor its transposition into national law, the ETUI has produced a series of up-to-date and accessible country profiles covering three key aspects: the minimum wage system, the collective bargaining regime and the transposition of the Directive into national law. The 2022 EU Minimum Wage Directive aims to ensure adequate minimum wages and strengthen collective bargaining, in order to reduce in-work poverty and wage inequality. Despite the deadline for transposition having passed in November 2024, by June 2025 only 19 countries had transposed the Directive, with legislation still pending in the remaining eight Member States.
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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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