European Commission takes French and German minimum wage unfair – NU.nl

Foreign carriers driving through France or Germany, their drivers have to pay the minimum wage. The committee supports the principle of a minimum wage, but finds its consequences in this case, ” disproportionate ”.

Include Polish and Czech transport companies had objected, because they have to pay too much wage in their eyes .

” For the Netherlands as a transport country, this is disastrous, ” says Wim van de Camp, which is in the EU Parliament on behalf of the CDA. ” We have to protect the internal market against such measures. ”

He also supports the principle of the minimum wage, ” alone may not lead until the erection of new barriers that prevent our drivers with more administrative burdens faced ”.

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to the minimum wage rules in Germany Brussels last year had already opened an investigation and subsequent now a new warning

follows. French law will take effect July 1. The reactions of both countries have not removed the concerns, the committee said Thursday. The countries now have two months to respond.

A group of forty MEPs recently sounded the alarm about the ‘protectionist’ practices. They welcome the pressure on France, but do not understand why the European Commission in the case of Germany as’ painfully slow ” act

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By: Reuters