“From 1/4/2024 those who are paid the minimum wage will receive 830 euros per month, we are talking regarding an increase of 50 euros in an amount that will drag upwards three years and many benefits” said the prime minister during his presentation Kyriakos Mitsotakis in the Council of Ministers.
Specifically, the “cleanly” they will amount to around 706 euros for an employee without children, and it will still drag on three years and allowances. Today, the salary is 780, i.e. 667 euros net. So, we will talk regarding a monthly salary increase to -regarding- 40 euros, said the prime minister.
Specifically, regarding the minimum wage, he said: “The minimum wage will reach 830 euros. It will entail three years and allowances. In 2019 the minimum wage was 650 euros. After the increases in the State and pensions, our programming commitments are implemented. Our goal in 2027 is for the average salary to be 1,500 euros and the minimum salary to be 950 euros. Today’s decision is well thought out and does not affect the economy’s resilience. It supports income and does not burden production. For the amount of the increase, we took into account the recommendations of scientific and social bodies. Wages are rising and unemployment has fallen to single digits following 15 years. No one can doubt that the course of the economy is moving in the right direction. Despite the difficulties, we remain committed to the battle of everyday life. We are raising dykes in price appreciation.”
At the beginning of his presentation, the Prime Minister referred to yesterday’s vote in Parliament, but mainly to the discussion that preceded it and as he said, answers were given. “Citizens had the opportunity to hear the truth regarding the tragedy in Tempe away from the distortion of political demagoguery. The opposition parties methodized the attack once morest the government. I believe that citizens perceive who is sincere also from the utterance of the speech. PASOK and SYRIZA will compete in toxicity. How ruthlessly they talked regarding fraud in the elections and how easily they embraced extra-institutional centers”.
He also said: “Important battles await us at the European level for immigration or farmers. They need MEPs with a strong national voice. In the same ballot box will be weighed the continuation of a course which, despite the difficulties, is moving us forward”.
“Welcome the increase in the minimum wage, but it should be combined with a reduction in non-wage costs.” This is what the president of the Athens Chamber of Commerce, Stavros Kafounis, said on the occasion of the government’s decision to raise the minimum wage.
Specifically, Mr. Kafounis stated: “Welcome any increase that improves the family income, especially of our economically weaker fellow citizens. After all, only in this way will the necessary increase in sluggish movement, which has been registered in the market recently, take place.
However, since social policy is not made on the backs of entrepreneurship, we expect this decision, which goes beyond our proposals, to be at least combined with the reduction of non-salary costs. In any other case, we will directly hurt the competitiveness of the economy and unfortunately we will be forced, as happened in the past, to take back the increase at multiple costs or at best to delay moving forward as we wish next year, in a further significant improvement of wages”.
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