Mathias Maucher, Senior Policy Officer of EAPN, joined the ETUC webinar “Why the Directive on adequate minimum wages should ensure that Member States increase their statutory minimum wages and stop wage theft” on 2 March. In his intervention at the ETUC webinar, Mathias Maucher highlighted some of EAPN’s 10 main demands in view of provisions…
The EU must adopt a Directive on Minimum Wages, guaranteeing decent pay and working conditions for all! EAPN welcomes the need for guaranteed decent pay and working conditions for all workers as a political priority at EU level. It is important that initiatives, including the proposal for an EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages in…
Adequate minimum wages are of great importance for improving the living and working conditions of people in the EU. They are important tools to guarantee social and labour rights. Moreover, decent minimum wages are crucial to tackle in-work poverty and precarious employment conditions. The European Commission held an Open Consultation on minimum wages, to which…
The long-awaited proposal by the European Commission for an EU directive on adequate minimum wages is out! With this proposal, the Commission wants to ensure that the workers in the Union are protected by adequate minimum wages allowing for a decent living wherever they work. When set at adequate levels, minimum wages do not only…
Since March, Mathias Maucher, EAPN Policy Officer, has participated as an invited expert in the “Diversity Europe Group” (Group III) of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in drafting and discussing the EESC Explanatory Opinion “Decent Minimum Wage across Europe”. EAPN’s National Networks from Germany, Poland, Romania, Spain and Sweden were also involved in…
