a post by Christine Aumayr-Pintar for the Eurofound blog
As one of their ‘100 days in office’ initiatives, the new European Commission intends to propose an initiative for an EU minimum wage.
The aim is that by 2024 every worker in the EU should earn a fair and adequate wage, no matter where they live.
And despite the Commission’s assurance that this would not alter national traditions of wage-setting, emotions are already running high – particularly among Scandinavian countries, which have collectively agreed sectoral minimum wages – not statutory.
Unions from Central and Eastern EU Member States, on the other hand, tend to regard the initiative as a step towards gaining more substantial pay. Member States take different approaches to minimum wage-setting and there is no ‘blueprint’ as to which regime generates a more desirable outcome.
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industrial_relations, minimum_wage, EU,
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