“Noticeably more money for their back-breaking job”: Employees in slaughterhouses are to receive a minimum wage of 10.80 euros in future. An agreement had already been reached last week, now details have become known.
The approximately 160,000 employees in slaughterhouses and meat processing companies will in future receive a gradually increasing minimum wage. The new lower wage limit starts at 10.80 euros per hour, as announced by the food-enjoyment-restaurants union (NGG) and the food industry association (VdEW). From January 1, 2022, it should then be 11.00 euros, from December of the coming year 11.50 euros and from December 2023 finally 12.30 euros per hour. The NGG had already announced an agreement in the wage dispute on Thursday evening, but details had not yet been published. According to the VdEW, the first stage of 10.80 euros is now expected to take effect from August 1, when the general binding effect comes into effect.
Work contracts prohibited
The deputy NGG chairman Freddy Adjan stated that tens of thousands of people would benefit from the new industry minimum wage and would get “noticeably more money for their back-breaking jobs”. After the prohibition of work contracts with the labor protection control law initiated by Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD), the new industry minimum wage is “a second very important component for proper conditions in the meat industry”. The VdEW emphasized that, compared to the current statutory minimum wage, many companies are facing a 30 percent increase in a period of two and a half years. This means that many companies in the meat industry are “expected to do a lot”.
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