Further rise in minimum wage planned in Poland

If given the go-ahead, the new rules would kick in on 1 January and guarantee a minimum monthly wage 5 percent higher than the current one.

This would mark another minimum wage hike under Poland’s conservative government led by Prime Minister Beata Szydło, after a previous 8.1 percent rise on 1 January this year.

The current minimum monthly wage for those employed full-time is PLN 2,000.

The new minimum monthly wage would be 47.27 percent of the average wage, Family, Labour and Social Policy Minister Elżbieta Rafalska said on Friday.

At the moment, the minimum monthly wage is 47.14 percent of the average wage, according to Rafalska.

In April, the average monthly wage in Poland was PLN 4,449 (EUR 1,053, USD 1,170), the country’s Central Statistical Office said on Thursday.

The government as a whole will make the final decision on how much the minimum wage will grow next year, Rafalska told the PAP news agency, adding that the figure proposed by her ministry may still change “one way or the other.”

Last year, the government decided to go ahead with a greater increase in the minimum wage than originally proposed by the labour ministry, Rafalska noted. (str/pk)

Source: Polskie Radio, PAP