Dispute over German minimum wage continues
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Freight companies from Poland, Austria and Hungary are bringing the matter of the German minimum wage before the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.
"The class action lawsuit will be filed to the constitutional court on Friday," said Damian Dziengo, lawyer at DD Legal from Hamburg.
According to the lawyer, the German legislator has seriously infringed the legal order based on European treaties. Dziengo said that he will demand a six month moratorium on the act.
According to a law that came into force on January 1, 2015 in Germany, all employees working on German territory regardless of where their employer is based have to be paid a minimum wage of €8.5 an hour. The law would decrease the competitiveness of Polish freight and transport companies, once applied to Polish drivers. The law was temporarily suspended at the beginning of February, after negotiations between the Polish Minister of Labor and his German counterpart.
