German Chancellor Merkel proposes European minimum wage: Merkel proposes a minimum wage for all European workers

•         Angela Merkel has called on the European Union to study how to ensure that all countries have a "comparable" minimum wage.
•         Chancellor argues that there should be equal working conditions throughout the block.
•         This was stated on Wednesday at a conference of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the European Union on Wednesday to study how to ensure that all countries have a "comparable" minimum wage, as it was published.

This was assured at a conference of the International Labor Organization (ILO) held in Geneva where he argued that there should be equal working conditions throughout the bloc.

German Chancellor Merkel proposes European minimum wage

According to Merkel, while Germany and other EU members already have a national minimum wage, the challenge now is to look at "how can we have comparable minimum wages," yes, taking into account the standard of living in different places.

Merkel's idea, he said, is that countries meet a unique standard linked to the cost of living in the country in question.

At the same time, the Chancellor complained that many companies still do not have women in leadership positions.

"Even in industrialized countries, equality between women and men in the economy leaves much to be desired," he said.

Merkel has approved measures to reduce wage gaps between men and women in Germany, and on various occasions has been in the forefront in this regard.

In 2014, Merkel managed to impose a minimum common salary for all categories of German workers against the wishes of their own party, the CDU conservatives, and in favor of SPD Socialists, according to the same media, which ended with a system according to which each category its own contract and its own salary.

Instead, he introduced another with a minimum wage of 8.50 euros per hour (today, 9.19 euros and, from 2020, 9.35 euros per hour).

To date, almost all European countries have a minimum wage in all categories except for countries such as Italy, Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland and Sweden.

Countries with the lowest minimum wage are Lithuania (2,19 euro), Estonia (3,21), Portugal (3,75) and Greece (3,94). Those with the highest hourly wage are the Netherlands (9.44 euros per hour), Ireland (9.80 euros) and Luxembourg (11.90 euros per hour).