Minimum wage of PLN 2,000 starting from 2017

On September 13, Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło has signed a Council of Ministers decree on the minimum monthly wage of PLN 2,000, the PM posted on her Twitter. The decree will come into force as of January 1, 2017, the document read. Currently, the minimum monthly wage amounts to PLN 1,850 (gross). So, the figure will grew by 8.1 percent. Earlier, the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy proposed to raise the wage only up to PLN 1,920. Recently in May, the Polish cabinet has approved a bill on introducing a minimal wage of PLN 12 per hour for persons without a regular employment contract, which is also to be introduced starting from January 1, 2017.