Union calls for higher minimum wages in collective agreements

Austria

The GPA-DJP trade union that organises in the private health and energy sectors has called on unions to negotiate higher minimum wages. Austrian unions have managed to ensure that no collective agreement has a minimum rate less than €1000 a month but the GPA-DJP argues that this is inadequate and that it is only just above the EU’s poverty wage threshold of €900 a month. The union wants to see all collective agreements with minimum wages of at least €1300 a month.
Read more at > GPA-DJP (DE)

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