Οι εργασίες της Επιτροπής Διαβούλευσης για τον Κατώτατο Μισθό & το Κατώτατο Ημερομίσθιο για το έτος 2024, υπό την προεδρία του Προέδρου του Ο.ΜΕ.Δ. κ. Κώστα Παπαδημητρίου Ομ. Καθηγητή Νομικής Αθηνών, και με τη συμμετοχή των εκπροσώπων των Υπουργών Εργασίας & Κοινωνικής Ασφάλισης και Εθνικής Οικονομίας & Οικονομικών, μελών της επιτροπής, κκ.

The latest episode of Eurofound Talks, recorded shortly before Eurofound publishes its harmonised analysis of 2024 minimum wage developments, looks at the changes to minimum wages in 2023. Mary McCaughey speaks with Eurofound experts Christine Aumayr-Pintar and Carlos Vacas-Soriano about the adequacy of minimum wages in Europe as they stand at the moment, how the EU has sought to improve the situation of low-wage earners through a Directive on adequate minimum wages, and how widespread the issue of minimum wage non-compliance is in the European Union.

In this pilot project, Eurofound successfully established the feasibility of, and piloted, an EU-wide database of minimum pay rates contained in collective agreements related to low-paid workers. A conceptual and measurement framework was devised, a total of 692 collective agreements – related to 24 low-paid sectors of interest – were selected to be ‘fully coded’ and representative data on negotiated minimum pay were compiled for 24 EU Member States. Based on more than 3,202 renewal texts, time series of collectively agreed minimum rates were created from 2015 to 2022 for 19 countries.

Wages are among the central subjects for collective bargaining. Collective bargaining may set wage floors as well as setting wages above these floors where economic factors allow, and wage adjustments which may ensure that workers get a fair share of productivity gains while not impairing the capacity of employers to operate profitably.