Traduction de «wage raise » (Anglais → Français) :

It seeks to degrade these rights by attacking wages, raising the retirement age and removing restrictions on the free movement of workers within the EU.

In the light of the national implementation of Article 5(2), this derogation raises several questions of interpretation, notably as to whether the pay level of agency workers during and between their assignments may legally be as low as the applicable minimum wage, if any, while minimum wages are not subject to any lower limit. The measures intended to prevent misuse of the derogation need to be considered as well.

5. Hopes that the action plan will be implemented in full; welcomes, in this connection, the decision of the Bangladeshi Government to raise the minimum wage in the coming weeks, which will affect some 4 million, mostly female workers, and urges the Bangladeshi Government to sanction companies that are undercutting this wage; encourages the government to keep reviewing the minimum wage in order to reach the level of a living wage; expects employers’ associations to honour their commitment to redeploy the workers that were rendered unemployed by the accidents as well as rehabilitated workers, and calls on the gover ...[+++]nment, additionally, to pass legislation in order to protect trade union members from being sacked for pursuing legitimate union activities by their employers;

What I find annoying is how much worse they are at raising this issue on other days of the year. One only has to look at the gap between women’s and men’s wages, with women’s wages still 15% lower than men’s in Europe, and this in spite of the right to equal wages being stated as far back as in the Treaty of Rome.

The Member States are therefore called upon to further reduce workers’ and pensioners’ shares in social prosperity, raising the retirement age or limiting wage increases, which the report wishes to be productivity-linked – thus increasing exploitation.

This latter point raises the issue of an equal share of wage and non-wage work between women and men.