On Wednesday, the German government formalized the decision to increase the legally guaranteed minimum wage by 82 cents to 12.82 euros per hour.
The first part of the increase, to 12.41 euros, comes into effect in January, and the second at the beginning of 2025, reports SEEbiz.
The first part of the increase, to 12.41 euros, comes into effect in January, and the second at the beginning of 2025, reports SEEbiz.
As expected, Minister of Labor Hubertus Heil signed the decree on the minimum wage according to the June proposal of the mixed commission of employers and employees.
The total increase corresponds to a rate of 6.8 percent.
Labor representatives in the Commissariat rejected the proposal and asked for a bigger increase, but they were outvoted.
Some politicians of the ruling coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Greens and the liberal FDP are not satisfied with the increase either.
The deputy leader of the Greens parliamentary group, Andreas Audretsch, said the increase was “nothing more than a bad joke” and said that people who work hard deserve more.
He criticized the Commissariat, because it first announced a unanimous agreement, and then deviated from it.
Last month, Scholz also criticized the commission on the same occasion, demanding that future decisions on wages be the result of an agreement with consensus support.
Source: SEEbiz
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