Brussels, 22/01/2015 (Agence Europe) - Some ten eastern European member states, led by Poland, have referred the minimum wage introduced by Germany on 1 January to the European Commission. Their concerns are principally over the impact this will have for lorry drivers. The Commission is pulling out the stops to make sense of the implications (see EUROPE 11235).
Polish Finance Minister Mateusz Szczurek, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday 22 January, said that, if the...