The first part of the increase takes effect in January, and the second at the beginning of 2025.

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, takes effect in January, and the second at the beginning of 2025, writes B92.

Labor Minister Hubertus Heil, as expected, signed the minimum wage regulation according to the June proposal of the joint commission of employers and employees for the minimum wage, reports the dpa agency.

The total increase corresponds to a rate of 6.8 percent. Worker representatives on the commission rejected the proposal and demanded a larger increase, but were outvoted.

Some politicians of the ruling coalition of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party, the Greens, and the liberal FDP are also dissatisfied with the increase.

Deputy head of the Greens' parliamentary group Andreas Audretsch told the dpa agency that the increase “is nothing more than a bad joke” and assessed that people who do hard jobs deserve more.

He criticized the commission because it first announced a unanimous agreement, and then backed away from it. Last month, Scholz also criticized the commission on the same occasion, demanding that wage decisions in the future be the result of an agreement with consensual support.

Source: poslovni.hr