Adequate minimum wages
Briefing
19-01-2021
This briefing finds that the European Commission's impact assessment (IA), which accompanies the directive proposal on adequate minimum wages, is based on sound data and presents a sufficiently broad range of policy options. It would have been useful if the measures concerning collective bargaining and adequacy of minimum wages had been explained more thoroughly in relation to the chosen legal basis. The problem description would have benefited of using more information from the extensive annexes. It would have clarified the text if the IA had provided the comparative analysis and selection of the preferred option separately for both minimum wage setting systems (collective agreements and legal provisions).
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- collective agreement
- collective bargaining
- economic analysis
- ECONOMICS
- employment
- EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS
- EU employment policy
- impact study
- labour law
- labour law and labour relations
- living conditions
- minimum pay
- national accounts
- organisation of work and working conditions
- personnel management and staff remuneration
- social framework
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- standard of living
- wage determination
- working conditions