[PDF] The Proposed Minimum Wage Directive eBook

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File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2020
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ISBN : 9789284674923

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Following a two-stage consultation of social partners launched in February 2020, on 28 October, the European Commission published its proposal for a directive on adequate minimum wages in the European Union. It is a watershed in the history of European social and economic integration: for the first time, the Commission is initiating legislative action not only to ensure fair minimum wages but also to strengthen collective bargaining. The proposal for the Directive is based on Article 153 (1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU) which covers working conditions. Art. 153 (5) TFEU, however, excludes interventions related to pay. The draft therefore leaves the main responsibility for defining the concrete level of a minimum wage to the Member States.

Author : Luca Ratti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 12,14 MB
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 1509968733

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This book provides an all-encompassing and timely analysis of the EU regulatory framework deriving from the enactment of Directive 2022/2041 on adequate minimum wages. In the first part, the book discusses the function of minimum wage policies in contemporary labour markets and the role of social partners and collective bargaining in governing minimum wage determinants and trends. The second part provides an article-by-article commentary of the Directive, including insights on crucial aspects such as the EU competence to intervene on wages, the concept of minimum wage adequacy, and the measurement and promotion of collective bargaining coverage. The third part assesses the impact of the Directive across the EU, focusing on the main systemic implications of the Directive as well as on the structural changes that Member States will need to implement. With contributions written by scholars and stakeholders from across Europe, the book sheds light on one of labour law's most fundamental objectives – to provide for adequate minimum wages. It is an invaluable resource for researchers, policy makers, trade unionists and employers' representatives.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
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Page : 1226 pages
File Size : 14,28 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Minimum wage
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Includes DOL report "Results of the Minimum-Wage Increase of 1950: Economic Effects in Selected Low-Wage Industries and Establishments," Aug. 1954 (p. 191-313)

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File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 2021
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ISBN : 9789289510967

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The primary objective of this study was to support the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) by providing an evidence base for their forthcoming Opinion on the European Commission's initiative on minimum wages. Specifically, the study examined the local and regional dimension of minimum wages, an area only briefly covered in the current literature. The Commission's initiative includes a proposed Directive which has as its focus the promotion of collective bargaining and the adequacy of statutory minimum wages. The research for the report was undertaken by Metis GmbH, conducted between December 2020 and February 2021 and comprising a literature review, data analysis, stakeholder interviews and case studies.

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File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 2022
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ISBN : 9789289722667

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Statutory minimum wages are one tool for highly centralised wage setting, and in some countries - where wage bargaining is extremely decentralised or non-existent - they are the only tool. They determine the wages of the lowest-earning workers in the labour market, but they can also affect the pay of those earning somewhat more, through spillover effects. At EU level, minimum wages have over the past two years become the focus of an important policy debate around the proposal for a directive on adequate minimum wages (COM(2020) 682 final), which seeks to ensure that workers in the EU are paid adequate minimum wages. Just before publication of the present report, on 7 June the European Parliament and European Council reached agreement on the directive (subject to a formal vote before being adopted). At national level, after cautious increases in minimum wages in 2021 - due largely to the pandemic - they increased more significantly in nominal terms in 2022 in most EU Member States. The challenge faced by actors involved in minimum wage setting in many countries was rising inflation, which has diminished the level of pay in real terms significantly in some countries (Eurofound, 2022). In parallel with the regular process of setting new rates for 2022, several countries continued to deliberate renewing aspects of their wage setting processes and debated policies closely related to the issue of minimum wages aimed at supporting workers and companies. This year's report - the latest in a series of annual reports - reviews developments in statutory minimum wages in those 21 Member States that have such a law and in a selection of collectively agreed minimum wages related to low-paid jobs in 5 Member States (Austria, Denmark, Finland, Italy and Sweden) and Norway, which have not established a universal and legally binding wage floor.

Author : Henri Haapanala
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,19 MB
Release : 2022
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The Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages represents a watershed initiative adding substance to the EU's social dimension. It contains two ambitious objectives: establishing the minimum level of statutory minimum wages (SMWs) at 60% of the gross median wage, and increasing collective bargaining coverage (CBC) to at least 80% of workers. In this paper, we assess how minimum wages and collective bargaining affect low pay. Using a time series cross-section of EU-SILC for income years 2004-2019, we identify and assess the absolute and relative size of 'effective wage floors' for full-time employees in 30 countries. We specify multilevel, random effects within-between (REWB) regression models to assess the individual and joint effects of SMW and CBC on wage floors. Our results indicate that SMW and CBC both have distinct roles to play in establishing the effective wage floor. First, countries with a statutory minimum wage have a lower share of workers earning below 60% gross median wage than countries without one. Furthermore, higher rates of CBC are essential for pushing down the share of workers on below-decent pay. Countries without a SMW but with CBC above the 80% target value have roughly the same proportion of below-decent pay as SMW countries with CBC less than 30-40%. However, at higher rates of CBC, SMW countries are predicted to overtake non-SMW countries on this measure. A hypothetical SMW country meeting the target value of 80% CBC is predicted to have less than 6.5% of full-time employees earning below-decent pay.

Author : Irene Dingeldey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429688369

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This book goes beyond traditional minimum wage research to investigate the interplay between different country and sectoral institutional settings and actors’ strategies in the field of minimum wage policies. It asks which strategies and motives, namely free collective bargaining, fair pay and/or minimum income protection, are emphasised by social actors with respect to the regulation and adaptation of (statutory) minimum wages. Taking an actor-centered institutionalist approach, and employing cross-country comparative studies, sector studies and single country accounts of change, the book relates institutional and labour market settings, actors’ strategies and power resources with policy and practice outcomes. Looking at the key pay equity indicators of low wage development and women’s over-representation among the low paid, it illuminates our understandings about the importance of historical junctures, specific constellations of social actors, and sector- and country-specific actor strategies. Finally, it underlines the important role of social dialogue in shaping an effective minimum wage policy. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and policy-makers and practitioners in industrial relations, international human resource management, labour studies, labour market policy, inequality studies, trade union studies, European politics and political economy.

Author : Eriks Ozols
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File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2023
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In October 2022, the Council of the European Union adopted a directive on adequate minimum wages in the European Union (AMWD). This directive has sparked considerable controversy among trade unions in EU countries. While employers are united in opposing the AMWD, European unions are divided. Unions in many EU countries support the AMWD, while unions in the two Scandinavian EU members, Denmark, and Sweden, oppose it. This paper thus aims to answer the question: Why do unions in some member states support EU legislation regarding statutory minimum wages, while unions in other countries oppose it?To answer this question, the paper conducts two tasks: the first one is descriptive, and the second one is explanatory. First, using 26 semi-structured expert interviews with representatives of national peak-level union confederations, we identify the positions of unions and confederations in 13 EU countries towards the AMWD. We propose a typology of union positions towards the AMWD consisting of three types of positions: self-oriented support, other-oriented support, and protectionist opposition. Second, the paper proposes an explanation for why unions take different positions on the AMWD in different countries. Our explanation draws on the interaction of two variables: national-level bargaining coverage, and the role of state institutions in protecting bargaining coverage. We demonstrate that each of the three types of positions is associated with a distinct combination of values on these two variables. We argue that statutory minimum wage legislation either strengthens or weakens unions' bargaining power, due to it interacting in different ways with features of the national bargaining model, resulting in different TUC positions towards the AMWD.

Author : Nathan Cambien
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 47,87 MB
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004433074

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European citizenship is facing numerous challenges, including fundamental rights and social justice considerations. These get amplified in the context of Brexit and the general rise of populism in Europe today. This book takes a representative selection of these challenges, which raise a multitude of highly complex issues, as an invitation to provide a critical appraisal of the current state of the EU legal framework surrounding EU citizenship. The contributions are grouped in four parts, dealing with constitutional developments posing challenges to EU citizenship; the limits of the free movement paradigm in the context of EU citizenship; EU citizenship beyond free movement; and, lastly, EU citizenship in the context of the outside world, including Brexit, the EEA and Eurasian Economic Union.