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– I am very critical of the EU’s participation in wage formation, it is actually a national matter, says Eva Nordmark.
Tomorrow, the European Commission will present his proposal on minimum wages in Europe. Sweden and the other Nordic countries have wanted a recommendation, but this will not happen. The European Commission proposal is a legally binding directive.
In the proposal that Ekot has read, the Commission writes that the minimum wage has not been raised like other wages in many Member States, and that minimum wages are increasingly important, especially in relation to economic recessions such as the pandemic of the crown.
The proposal establishes from the outset that countries like Sweden, where wages are determined in collective agreements between unions and employers, should not have to introduce legal minimum wages if the agreements cover at least 70 percent of employees, but that exception does not reassures Labor Minister Eva Nordmark.
– There is a proposal for an exception, and it is somewhat unique that the Swedish model agreement is recognized in Brussels, but we really need to look at this carefully, so it is a step in the right direction. But basically I am critical of the EU’s involvement in wage formation.
In the second chapter of the proposed directive which refers to countries that do not have wages based on collective agreements, it does not say how high the legal minimum wage should be, but a reference is what is generally used internationally. In that case, it would correspond to at least 60 percent of the median salary or 50 percent of the median salary in the country.
– I cannot shout hooray until we know for sure that this does not affect the Swedish model of wage formation, says Eva Nordmark.
