Two employers' federations in the temporary sector - BZA and IGZ - and the German confederation of trade unions DGB sent, on February 11, 2008, their official request for minimum wage in the temporary sector to the Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs, which immediately sparked off vivid controversy within the Grand Coalition. (Ref. 080118)
Taking up the terms of a wage agreement signed in May 2006, social partners asked Olaf Scholz, SPD Employment Minister, to introduce a branch minimum wage via the law “on posted workers” (Entsendegesetz), amounting to €7.31 in western Germany and €6.36 in the east. In the presence of the Minister, the two federations and the DGB explained that such a wage was “essential to protect temp workers against social dumping” on the eve of the liberalization of labor markets in the EU. If no such wage i
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