15/01/2021 (Agence Europe) – In a report by Özlem Alev Demirel (GUE/NGL, Germany), adopted by a relative majority (29 votes in favour, 2 against and 21 abstentions) in the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs on Thursday 14 January, MEPs demand that the minimum wage directive should provide for a minimum wage above the poverty line. They also call for non-standard workers in the digital economy to be taken into account by the European Commission. Platform workers should also be able to engage in collective bargaining. They also call for the inclusion of a social progress protocol in the European treaties which prevails in the event of a conflict between fundamental economic freedoms and collective social rights. (PH)