Minimum salary up
Entrepreneurs, to put it mildly, are not satisfied with plans to increase the minimum wage from next year. It was proposed that The minimum salary was PLN 4,806 gross. This means that it will be higher by PLN 140 than the current one, i.e. it will increase by approx. 3 percent. The hourly rate will also increase – to PLN 31.40 (by 90 groszy). This is still a smaller increase than the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy originally proposed. The ministry proposed a 7.6 percent increase. – from the current PLN 4,666 to PLN 5020 gross. Now the Social Dialogue Council will deal with this issue.
Employers dissatisfied with the government's decision
– We are not delighted with the amount of the increase minimum beds Next year, which was proposed by the government, She is too high. It would be more rational to increase the minimum wage so that it persists at 50 percent. average wage. As employers' organizations, we proposed that the increase in the minimum wage was based on the indicator resulting from the current Act, i.e. it did not exceed PLN 50 – says prof. Jacek Męcina, adviser to the board of the Lewiatan Confederation. We would like to remind you that the average monthly gross salary in the enterprise sector in May was PLN 9055.92.
Entrepreneurs concerned about the increase in the minimum salary
Also a spokeswoman for small and medium -sized enterprises Agnieszka Majewska in a letter to Prime Minister Donald Tusk emphasized that in recent years the minimum wage is growing very quickly, which raises anxiety among entrepreneurs. “Rising employee costs are one of the most frequently indicated by entrepreneurs barriers in conducting business activity,” she emphasized. “Raising a minimum wage for work is implemented in isolation from the real economic possibilities of Polish entrepreneursand the loads applied on them recently began to grow much faster than the profits generated by their companies ” – he notes, indicating that in the long run it can even lead to the liquidation of places work.
Trade unionists also uncomfortable
– PLN 140 gross increases Very sad news for thousands of Polish women and Poles – said Grzegorz Sikora, director of the Trade Union Forum in an interview with Pulshr.pl. – It is not enough to freeze the minimum wage so that the companies have regained oxygen and start investing. We will not be competitive because we save on the weakest. And this is what the absurdity of this discussion is – he added. He emphasized, however, that “it can be discussed about the minimum wage for weeks for weeks, but let's not tell the public that the government proposal of this increase is an antidote and some kind of symbol of the far -sightedness of the Ministry of Finance.” Unlike employers, employees closer to the proposal of the labor department.
Sources: Office of the spokesperson of small and medium -sized entrepreneurs, Lewiatan Confederation, Pulshr.pl, IAR