LaborMin to increase minimum salary to PLN 1,920 in 2017

The Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy is proposing raising the minimum monthly salary by PLN 70 to PLN 1,920, according to Polish daily Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. "We aim to constantly keep the minimum salary at a level of 45 percent of an avarage salary and the raise guarantees it," said Deputy Minister Stanisław Szwed. The newspaper also said that unions propose that the raise should be PLN 120.