The landmark ruling validates the directive's approach to adequate wages and collective bargaining, dealing only minor setbacks to its implementation across Europe.
Germany’s wage commission sets a new course, linking pay floor to EU benchmark after years of modest rises.
A landmark German law has drastically improved working conditions in the meat industry.
EU’s minimum wage directive is under threat.
The EU pushes for a 60 per cent median wage standard—yet Germany resists. What’s at stake for fair wages?
The directive has already changed the landscape on setting minimum wages and extending collective bargaining.
The directive fundamentally strengthens collective bargaining and trade union power.
The hike to €12 is also a strong signal on the planned European minimum-wages directive.
The European Parliament has upped the ante, beyond a European Commission proposal, on a minimum-wages directive.
The German meat industry is being pushed off its low road of migrant-labour exploitation towards regulation and potential collective agreement.
The draft minimum-wage directive is a crucial first step but more needs to follow on the way to a social Europe.
The principle of a European minimum wage is established. How it should be set is not.
The economic mainstream is perplexed: growth is finally taking hold across Europe, economic forecasts have been revised upwards, and employment is expanding. The only indicator
On 26 April, the European Commission launched its proposal for a European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) as a flagship initiative to strengthen the EU’s
The radical restructuring of Greek collective bargaining was right from the beginning one of the core demands of the Troika of the European Commission, the