The government will carry out studies on a national minimum wage in cooperation with the European Commission and the International Labour Office.Christos Malekkides, permanent secretary of the Labour Ministry said the studies will be completed by March 2019 so that a government plan is put in place by November....
Read the article and chat about it below...
Studies underway on national minimum wage
-
Paphos Life
- Posts: 3138
- Joined: Tue Feb 28, 2017 9:20 am
Re: Studies underway on national minimum wage
This must be putting the fear of God into cafes, tourist shops and restaurants!
Re: Studies underway on national minimum wage
The claim that introduction of minimal wage hasn´t caused job losses in Germany is definitely not correct. It´s only that there are so many vacancies that people found new jobs. In the region where I´m from employers are struggling to find workers and salaries were above minimum wage anyway (unemployment rate last month was 1.6% https://statistik.arbeitsagentur.de/Nav ... t-Nav.html). E. g. the local butcher in our village had to close a recently opened branch because of staff shortages, not because of lack of demand for his products (I know because my former neighbour is working for him). I doubt that the Cypriot labour market could absorb those who lose their jobs as easily.
Also, who could afford to pay an in-house carer if you have to pay minimum wage? Before that law came into effect it was not uncommon to have women e. g. from Poland taking care of the elderly. A late relative of mine employed two women who took turns of 6 weeks each for € 600.- / month to look after him. My grandmother was cared for by a Romanian. Nowadays most have to go to an old age home due to minimum wage in connection with labour laws (which are banning shifts of more than 10 hours) which made private nursing care unaffordable. This is the reason my mother came to live with me in Cyprus. Is that what you call progress?
Also, who could afford to pay an in-house carer if you have to pay minimum wage? Before that law came into effect it was not uncommon to have women e. g. from Poland taking care of the elderly. A late relative of mine employed two women who took turns of 6 weeks each for € 600.- / month to look after him. My grandmother was cared for by a Romanian. Nowadays most have to go to an old age home due to minimum wage in connection with labour laws (which are banning shifts of more than 10 hours) which made private nursing care unaffordable. This is the reason my mother came to live with me in Cyprus. Is that what you call progress?
