Poland's cabinet approved a regulation on hiking the minimum wage to PLN 4,242 (EUR 917) and the minimum hourly rate to PLN 27.70 (EUR 4.9) as from January next year, Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, announced on Thursday
The Polish government on Tuesday launched a legislative process for hiking its monthly minimum wage by nearly 20 percent next year, according to the cabinet's legislative agenda.
The government has agreed on Poland's 2024 draft budget, the prime minister told a press conference after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
The Polish government, on Tuesday, adopted proposals that would hike the monthly minimum wage to PLN 4,242 gross (EUR 947) from January 1, 2024 and to PLN 4,300 gross (EUR 960) from July 1, 2024.
The minimum wage will significantly increase in Poland next year as the country struggles with inflation, family and social policy minister has said.
The Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, has said that the 16-percent minimum hourly rate hike meant that the government was restoring the dignity of work.
The minimum wage will increase in Poland next year as the country struggles with inflation and difficult economic situation caused by Russia's war on Ukraine, officials have confirmed.
Uniformed service trade unions demonstrated on Wednesday outside the Prime Minister's Office in Warsaw demanding wage indexations.
Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has stressed the need for compromise rather than war, following a meeting with representatives of Poland's Solidarity trade union on Wednesday.
Polish medium-sized companies (SMEs) are facing an additional burden from a minimum wage hike, seen at PLN 18.16 billion (EUR 3.84 billion) next year, according to the rationale to a government regulation.
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