Green light for minimum wage increase on October 1st – innovation also for mini-jobbers in sight
Created: 05/19/2022, 10:42 am
According to the plans, the statutory minimum wage should be at least 12 euros per hour from October.
A corresponding draft law has been launched.
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The social affairs committee of the Bundestag gave the go-ahead for raising the minimum wage to 12 euros per hour from October – parliament is soon to vote on this.
Which is also planned.
The Social Affairs Committee of the Bundestag has given the green light to
increase the minimum wage to 12 euros per hour on October 1st
.
The draft law by Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) was passed on Wednesday (May 18), as the German Press Agency learned from participants.
With the increase, the coalition also wants to raise the limit for mini-jobs from 450 to 520 euros
.
From October 1st, monthly earnings up to the new limit for employees are to remain tax and social security-free.
The minimum wage is to rise to 12 euros from October - wage increases for around six million people in sight
SPD parliamentary group leader Dagmar Schmidt told the German Press Agency: “The course has been clearly set with the decision in the committee.
A minimum wage of 12 euros is a big step.” The coalition has launched relief packages and crisis measures that help people in the face of the current price increases, she said.
"But at the same time it is important to stabilize incomes in principle, because that is the basis for all employees."
The deputy chairman of the Greens parliamentary group, Andreas Audretsch, told the dpa: "This is a wage increase for over six million people and, also in view of rising prices, it is more important and urgent than ever." Women and people in eastern Germany in particular would benefit from the increase in the minimum wage .
"The decision today is therefore also a strong sign of more justice in Germany," said Audretsch on Wednesday.
It was initially unclear
when the
draft law would be put on the agenda of the plenum for final deliberation.
But it should be done soon, it said on Wednesday from all three traffic light groups.
Audretsch said: "We will now tackle the adoption in the Bundestag quickly."
In the video: Mini-job limit is to increase from October 2022
The socio-political spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group, Pascal Kober, pointed out that for the first time since 2013 the
mini-job limit
would be increased.
"This is good news for more than 6 million mini-jobbers." Due to the dynamic mini-job limit that has now been introduced, it will be automatically adjusted upwards with every increase in the minimum wage in the future.
"This means that in future mini-jobbers will no longer have to reduce their working hours after wage increases, but that they will actually have more money in their pockets."
The chief executive of the employers' association BDA, Steffen Kampeter, criticized: "The draft law on the minimum wage is the most fundamental attack on the collective bargaining autonomy in the history of the Federal Republic." The Basic Law leaves it to the collective bargaining parties to shape wages and working conditions.
With reference to reports commissioned by the BDA, Kampeter asserted “considerable constitutional doubts” about the political approach.
€12 minimum wage from October 2022 – what does that mean for pensions?
What would the higher
minimum wage
mean for future
pensions
?
The Federal Association of Pension Advisors has looked into this question in more detail - you can find out more about it here.
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