Norway to implement minimum wage for freight companies

Norway is going to implement a minimum wage for drivers hired by all the freight firms operating in the country on July 1, wnp.pl web portal reported on Wednesday. The wage will be 10 times higher than it stands in Poland, the portal estimated.

According to Norwegian trade unions, the law needs to be revised due to "mistreating of foreign drivers and social dumping, which results in unfair competition and orders lost by Norwegian freight companies."

The minimum wage would stand at 158.32 Norwegian crowns per hour, which is roughly PLN 74. A driver will also be given a daily bonus of 307 Norwegian crowns.

"Norway is not an EU member, so any means of influence are limited. Withdrawing of the new law is unlikely," Bartosz Najman, the president of Ogólnopolskie Centrum Rozliczania Kierowców (OCRK).