Minimum Wage or Living Income?

Minimum annual wage

Minimum wage index

The minimum wage

The Committee is particularly concerned that the minimum wage is not sufficient to provide a decent living for workers and their families and that in practice such a minimum wage is not always paid.

Net minimum wage in zlotys

Minimum real wage (1983 100)

Monitoring of the minimum wage

Relation of the minimum wage to an average wage in

The Committee notes with concern the low level of the minimum wage, which is inadequate to provide workers with a decent living for themselves and their families, and the lack of a system of indexation and regular adjustment of the minimum wage to the cost of living.

At the same time, there have been efforts to raise the level of earned income by setting minimum wage legislation. But the minimum wage has never reached the floor set for a living income and has not, therefore, appreciably reduced the bill for wage subsidies.

While noting the efforts taken by the State party to increase the minimum wage, the Committee is concerned that the current minimum wage is still insufficient to provide a decent standard of living for workers and their families.

Higher growth of the minimum wage than of the average wage.

Legal force of the minimum wage

Methods for fixing the minimum wage

The Committee urges the State party to continue to take the necessary measures to ensure that the minimum wage enables workers and their families to enjoy an adequate standard of living and that the minimum wage standard is enforced.

The Committee urges the State party to take the necessary measures in order to ensure that the minimum wage enables workers and their families to enjoy an adequate standard of living and that the minimum wage standard is effectively enforced.

The Council apos s functions include periodically setting the minimum index linked living wage (article 136 (a)) three main factors determine the minimum wage the economic situation, the Council apos s objectives and a reasonable balance between these two factors.

(d) Monitoring application of minimum wage provisions

Minimum Wage Fixing Machinery Convention No. 26

living standards minimum

The minimum wage in Poland is so low that work of good quality is generally not remunerated below the minimum wage level.

108. Articles 135 to 138 of the Employment Act established the National Council on Employment, Productivity and an Index Linked Minimum Living Wage.

We'd explored the issue of legal minimum wage.

The minimum allowable wage for foreign domestic helpers

(d) The minimum nationwide wage for infant care

43. Since the minimum wage is guaranteed by the Constitution (art. 48, para. 5) and by the minimum wage system provided in the Labour Code (art. 244, para. 1), the minimum wage system has the force of law.

59. Table 5 presents the level of the minimum wage in comparison with average wage growth and the increase in the cost of living 10 years ago, 5 years ago and at present.

Moreover, the State party should introduce a mechanism to index and adjust the minimum wage to the cost of living on a regular basis.

The Committee expresses concern at information that the minimum wage is still not sufficient to ensure a decent living for workers and their families

In the said case the monthly wage shall not be less than the minimum wage.

Wages should be no lower than the minimum wage.

In socially justified circumstances (for example a higher increase in the cost of living than was estimated), the minimum wage agreement allows for additional indexation.

The Committee urges the State party to continue to take necessary measures to ensure that the minimum wage enables workers and their families to enjoy an adequate standard of living and that the minimum wage standard is effectively enforced, particularly in rural areas and in western areas.

Legal minimum wage has been proposed for 10 20 years, yet the wage remains the same.

The Ordinance simply provides that any minimum wage determined by the wage board may consist of

The Committee further encourages the State party to establish an effective system of indexation and regular adjustment of the minimum wage to the cost of living.

In the given case the monthly wage of the employee shall not be below the minimum wage .

The Committee recommends that the State party take measures to ensure that the minimum wage is sufficient to ensure a decent living for all workers and their families and provide more detailed information in its next periodic report on how the minimum wage relates to the basic consumer basket.

The minimum wage in Okinawa is 642 yen per hour.

Wage earners outside the protection of the minimum wages system

Table 7. Growth rates of minimum wage and price indices

56. The minimum wage is fixed on a quarterly basis.

Determination of the minimum wage is not connected to the value of the consumer's shopping basket, which, to our knowledge, is much higher than the minimum wage.

On the contrary, the relation of the minimum wage to an average wage and the cost of living in 1993 and 1994 may be estimated as typical and indicating processes really taking place in the field of wages.