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The Minister of Finance, João Leão, defended today that next year there should be room to increase the national minimum wage “meaningfully”, after a negotiation in the Social Agreement.
“Our intention is, next year, to continue with the dialogue that has to be done in the Social Concert, with the increase in the minimum wage and that there be a significant increase,” said the minister in the Big Interview, broadcast by RTP3.
João Leão stressed that “there were sectors that were greatly affected” by the crisis of the covid-19 pandemic “and that there are” many workers “who earn the minimum wage, currently 635 euros, but the Government believes that” there must be space “to increase the minimum remuneration.
Asked if the increase in 2021 could be at the level of what was applied this year, of 35 euros, the minister has stressed, however, that “the world has changed” with the pandemic and that, therefore, it will be necessary to evaluate the situation of companies.
Regarding the salaries of the public administration, João Leão affirmed that in 2021 there will be an increase of more than 2% of the salary mass due to the progressions and the recovery of the time of service of teachers and special careers.
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