Employers want to renegotiate a three-year agreement that would raise the minimum wage by 13% next year, while unions advocate sticking to the deal reached in November 2024. After a meeting of the monitoring committee of the VKF, a tripartite forum of employers, unions and the government, the chief secretary of the employers’ association VOSZ, said the three-year agreement should be renegotiated in light of lower than expected GDP growth. The head of the trade union MOSZ, acknowledged that higher-than-expected inflation and lower-than-expected GDP growth established the conditions for renegotiating the agreement, but suggested wage increases could be benchmarked to corporate profit growth in Q1-Q3 rather than to GDP growth. He said unions wanted to keep the 13% minimum wage rise for 2026 in the original agreement.
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