Per Increase of the Minimum Wage: To Make Work Pay Again – 15 Euro Minimum Wage Is Overdue

The Union wanted to mention in the coalition agreement a minimum wage of 15 euros in the coming year only achievable. However, the SPD vehemently demands it. And that is quite right, our author says.

Employer representative Steffen Kampeter warns against a renewed political intervention in the work of the minimum wage commission. He assumes that an economically viable minimum wage is well below the required 15 euros.