(14 January 2020) The European Commission today published its much consultation that is anticipated on “possible action handling the difficulties linked to reasonable minimum wages” but its key proposals turn out to be disappointing for trade unions.
The Commission notes that “collective bargaining is a vital part of the social market economy and a very good foundation once and for all wage environment. ”
During the time that is same it acknowledges that statutory minimum wages don’t allow for a great living, with several employees on insufficient wages. They don’t reap the benefits of efficiency gains throughout the economy nor share when you look at the earnings of these organizations. The paper additionally acknowledges that wage inequalities have become and that sets of workers have actually little if any bargaining power whilst not all EU governments respect collective bargaining.
EPSU stocks most of this analysis and as a consequence discovers it profoundly disappointing that the Commission’s paper is in short supply of proposals to cope with this problems. It falls in short supply of exactly just what employees anticipate through the Commission because it doesn’t challenge the asymmetries in energy between employees plus the employers.
This new Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen managed to make it a priority “to make sure every worker inside our Union has a reasonable minimum wage. Continue reading “Commission disappoints using its reasonable wage assessment paper”