Saturday, February 27, 2016

Minimum wage could rise to 8.80 euros – Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg

The legal minimum wage of 8.50 euro could rise at the beginning of next year to 8.80 euros. The reports of the Tagesspiegel, citing on members of the Minimum Wage Commission. Even a slightly higher increase would be conceivable -. For the unions would instigate but probably many strikes

The legal minimum wage of 8.50 euro could 2017 rise by 30 cents. The reports of the Tagesspiegel, citing on Mitglider the Minimum Wage Commission. This committee sit three representatives of employers and trade unions as well as the president Jan Zilius who started at the Mining and then for many years was Director of Labor Relations at RWE. Zilius declined to comment on the report of the Tagesspiegel.

Officially the Commission must decide the statutory increase the minimum wage to 30 June. The Commission members are oriented to the so-called tariff index for 2015 and on the wage development in the first half of 2016. These figures were far greater increase than 8.80 euros for barely, the Tagesspiegel.

If IG Metall and ver.di in spring but high wage settlements for more than five million employees prevail in the metal industry and in the public service, could be an increase in the minimum wage to 8.82 or 8 , 83 euros are possible, the newspaper reports. In this case the employer

would accept the Commission estimate that a minimum wage of 8.85 euros by 2017, the new value is not too crooked fails. According to estimates currently benefit some 400,000 employees and thus about one in five workers in Berlin and Brandenburg from the force since early 2015 minimum wage. In the minimum wage law has been agreed that the minimum wage every two years is to be raised. The unions had demanded to raise the minimum wage from 2017 to 9 euros.

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