PM Szydło signs PLN 2,000 minimum wage bill

On September 13, Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło signed a Council of Ministers decree on the minimum monthly wage of PLN 2,000, the PM posted on 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 grow by 8.1 percent. Earlier, the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy proposed raising the wage only up to PLN 1,920. Recently in May, the Polish cabinet approved a bill on introducing a minimum wage of PLN 12 per hour for people without a regular employment contract, which is also to be introduced starting from January 1, 2017.