If anyone is breaking a taboo, it is the Federal Chancellor

Employers' President Dr. Rainer Dulger comments on Chancellor Olaf Scholz's statements on the minimum wage:

If anyone is breaking a taboo, it is the Federal Chancellor

Berlin, May 14, 2024 "If politicians and trade unions continue to conduct negotiations on the minimum wage in the press, then the Minimum Wage Commission might as well be dissolved. The Federal Chancellor claims that the employers have broken a taboo. With all due respect, that is nonsense. What is true is that the trade unions were no longer prepared to accept a rule that would have made a joint decision possible.

Employers have acted in accordance with the law. The independent chairwoman of the Minimum Wage Commission made and supported this latest proposal. If anyone is breaking a taboo, it is the Federal Chancellor. He has promised that he will no longer interfere in the work of the Minimum Wage Commission. It is extremely dangerous for our economy, job security and collective bargaining autonomy to constantly increase the pressure on the Minimum Wage Commission for election campaign reasons - more than a year before the next decision."