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While in France, the unions are demanding an increase in wages and calling for demonstrations on Thursday, January 27, what is the situation with our European neighbors? The journalist Francois Beaudonnet make the point.
“In Europe, minimum wages are increasing and this has not happened for a decade”says journalist François Beaudonnet. In Germany, “The gross hourly minimum wage will drop from 9.82 euros to 12 euros. This is a very strong increase.“ It will therefore be higher than in France. UK, “where it is roughly at the same level as with us, the SMIC will also be higher than the French minimum wage”says the journalist. In Spain, where it remains much lower than in France, “the minimum wage will go from 8.20 to 8.50 euros. In the last three years, it will have soared by 30%”, Point Francois Beaudonnet.
“Across Europe, including in France, there is strong pressure after the Covid to better pay so-called front-line employees, such as garbage collectors or bus drivers”assures the journalist. According to him, the difference “perhaps comes from the fact that inflation is higher in many European countries than in France. So it’s even harder for low wages that you have to help”. For Francis Beaudonnet, “The real reason is, I think, political. In Germany and Spain, raising the minimum wage was an election promise. She is being held.”
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