The Polish cabinet has approved a bill on introducing a minimal wage of PLN 12 per hour for persons without a regular employment contract, the government press center CIR said in a statement following the cabinet's weekly sitting. "The bill stipulates that the PLN 12/h wage will be introduced as of January 1, 2017. It will be applicable to persons employed on the basis of civil law contracts as well as the self-employed, and will be indexed annually to the minimal wage growth indicator," the document reads. Earlier in March, Elżbieta Rafalska, the Minister of Family, Labor and Social Policy, claimed that the hourly minimum wage of PLN 12 might be introduced in September 2016. Raising the hourly minimum wage to PLN 12 was one of PiS' promises during the electoral campaign.
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The Polish cabinet has approved a bill on introducing a minimal wage of PLN 12 per hour for persons without a regular employment contract, the government press center CIR said in a statement following the cabinet's weekly sitting.
"The bill stipulates that the PLN 12/h wage will be introduced as of January 1, 2017. It will be applicable to persons employed on the basis of civil law contracts as well as the self-employed, and will be indexed annually to the minimal wage growth indicator," the document reads.
Earlier in March, Elżbieta Rafalska, the Minister of Family, Labor and Social Policy, claimed that the hourly minimum wage of PLN 12 might be introduced in September 2016.
Raising the hourly minimum wage to PLN 12 was one of PiS' promises during the electoral campaign.
