Traduction de «salaire minimum des jeunes travailleurs » (Français → Anglais) :

minimum wage for young workers

Estonia, Romania and Slovakia increased the level of their national minimum wage floor to combat in-work poverty, while the United Kingdom sharpened sanctions for employers who do not apply the requirements of the National Minimum Wage.

In addition, the nationally-set minimum wage is high relative to average wages in many regions and hence contributes to the persistence of high unemployment among young and low-skilled workers.

In Luxembourg the law provides that a qualified worker must receive an increase of 20% of the guaranteed minimum wage when the worker holds professional qualifications usually acquired by education or training certified by an official diploma or has worked for at least ten years in that profession.

13. Points out that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have warned of the social (in-work poverty) and economic (depressed internal demand) problems related to the wage devaluation that has occurred in recent years; stresses in this regard that an adequate wage policy is vital for maintaining internal demand, and that wage increases should therefore be better adapted to changes in productivity; maintains that there must be a reference to the importance of increasing wages, especially in countries where wages are below the poverty threshold, but it must be made without undermining the subsidiarity principle; recalls that minimum ...[+++] wages differ substantially between Member States, and reiterates its request for a study on this issue, including an analysis of the differences in purchasing powers between Member States; encourages the Member States to set minimum wages in accordance with national legislation and practices and to consider their impact on in-work poverty, household income, aggregate demand and job creation;