2023. December 24 – 14:37
Next spring, Parliament could decide on the application of EU minimum wage rules, or on the “introduction of a European minimum wage.” Mandarin From the government's 2024 legislative program.
The EU has decided to issue a directive setting the minimum wage in 2022, so Hungary will have to introduce it in some form by October 2024. However, this does not mean that a uniform minimum wage will be applied in all EU countries from now on. Instead, the directive sets uniform standards for how minimum wages are set in member states. For countries such as Austria or Denmark, where there is no centrally set minimum wage, this could lead to a larger change, while in Hungary only minor changes are expected.
On the other hand, what is expected to change is the abolition of the double minimum wage system, so that there will be a higher category alongside the minimum wage, which is the guaranteed minimum wage. the Napi.hu According to his summer article, abolishing the dual system could lead to an increase in the minimum wage, if, for example, the government retains the larger of the two, or the calculation of the minimum wage is changed so that it is the weighted average of the current minimum wage and the minimum wage. . On the other hand, we should not expect the introduction of EU rules to raise wages in Hungary to Western European wage levels all at once. In any case, the government is already negotiating with trade unions and employers' organizations about the new rules, and the proposal will be built on this and will be submitted to Parliament in the spring of 2024.
