Employers' Association Warns Against 15 Euro Minimum Wage by Law

A further increase in the minimum wage through legislative intervention would, in the view of Steffen Kampeter, Managing Director of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA), be "political harakiri." "The government should let us, the social partners, work in peace. Instead, they set a demand for €15, which is making our negotiations more difficult," he told "Welt am Sonntag." "This shows that they apparently believe unions and …