Key questions of the transposition of the EU minimum wage directive in Hungary

2024.07.10

Almost two years after the European Commission presented the proposal for a directive on fair and adequate minimum wages, it was adopted by a majority of EU Parliament members in September 2022. The Directive 2022/2041 on adequate minimum wages in the EU proposes mandatory criteria for increasing the minimum wage. It intends to affirm the role of the social partners in setting its level. The directive requires the Member States to set out an action plan to increase minimum wage coverage through collective agreements in countries where this rate is lower than 80 %.