Poland to raise minimum wage twice in 2024, minister says
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A overall watch of Warsaw metropolis is seen from the Palace of Tradition and Science in Warsaw, Poland January 8, 2018. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland plans to elevate the minimum wage twice in 2024 to attend folks take care of high inflation, Household and Social Protection Minister Marlena Malag acknowledged, as the ruling Laws and Justice (PiS) celebration prepares for a parliamentary election later this Twelve months.
The price of dwelling has been rising very a lot in most up-to-date months, with inflation in February reaching its absolute best in extra than a quarter of a century at 18.4% Twelve months on Twelve months. In April inflation stood at 14.7%.
“The minimum wage subsequent Twelve months shall be above 4,200 zlotys ($1,015),” Malag changed into once quoted as announcing by boom-controlled news agency PAP. She acknowledged that, love in 2023, subsequent Twelve months the minimum wage shall be raised in two steps – from Jan. 1 and July 1.
The minimum wage changed into once raised to three,490 zlotys from January 2023 and can just be lifted to three,600 zlotys from July.
The date for the election has now not but been put, nevertheless it no doubt is due in October or November.
($1 = 4.1422 zlotys)
