It was THE election campaign promise made by Chancellor Olaf Scholz (63, SPD): The minimum wage is to be raised from the current EUR 9.60 to EUR 12!
But Rainer Dulger, head of the powerful employers’ association BDA, has now announced fierce opposition: His association is examining a lawsuit against the prestige project of the traffic light.
With the law, the so-called “collective bargaining autonomy” will be undermined, so Dulger.
Background: Politicians in Germany are not allowed to dictate wages, as stipulated in the Basic Law. Collective bargaining is reserved for trade unions and employers.
The independent minimum wage commission therefore actually decides on the minimum wage – but this time Chancellor Scholz simply wants to ignore it.
Ingrid Hartges, head of the Dehoga restaurateurs association, fears that this one operation will not end there. “There is a great risk that we will experience an outbid competition between the parties before every federal election,” she told BILD.
And further: “That would be dangerous for the labor market, because the wages have to pay the companies, not the politicians.”
Hartges therefore also supports a lawsuit against the law: “It is right and legitimate to legally examine the statutory minimum wage increase.”
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