Going over a point proposed by the coalition ruling, Austrian social partners announced that they found an agreement on the introduction of a 1.000-euro gross minimum wage for all employees, at the latest on January 1, 2009. (Ref. 070593)
Rudolf Hundstorfer, president of the Austrian trade union confederation (ÖGB) and Christoph Leitl, president of the Austrian economic chamber (WKÖ) which represents all Austrian employers, presented to the press, on July 2, 2007, an agreement on minimum wage. For Mr. Leitl, who specified that negotiations were tough, it was nonetheless necessary to show that it was interesting to work in Austria, notably by clearly differentiating low wages’ level from social aid (Grundsicherung). The latter is
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