On Wednesday 7 July, the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the EU submitted a new compromise proposal on the EU framework directive to establish adequate minimum wages, ahead of a working group meeting on 14-15 July.
The Slovenian Presidency is taking up the compromises put forward in the first half of the year under the Portuguese Presidency. As a reminder, the latter, on the basis of exchanges with national delegations and the opinion of the Council Legal Service (see EUROPE 12675/13), had proposed greater flexibility in the legislative text in order to ensure compliance with the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality (see EUROPE 12740/15).
The new Slovenian compromise therefore deepens the path traced by the previous Presidency. It keeps the new name of the directive, excludes seafarers from the scope of the legislative text, and allows deductions from wages.
The Slovenian Presidency insists on respecting national practices, pointing out that the text introduces a harmonised procedure rather than legal obligations. It specifies the derogations concerning minimum wages and the modalities of the evaluation report.
To consult the compromise text: https://bit.ly/3ra3FxD
To read the progress report by the previous Portuguese Presidency of the EU Council: https://bit.ly/3xks59f (Original version in French by Pascal Hansens)