SP wants a minimum wage of CHF 5,000 after the apprenticeship

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The Social Democrats want a minimum wage for apprenticeship graduates. “Anyone who has completed an internship must earn at least 5,000 francs a month,” demands SP national councilor Samira Marti (29) in the CH Media newspapers.

In 2020, a quarter of employees with an internship in Switzerland earned less than 5,000 francs gross per month. Half a million employees earned less than 4,100 francs gross. This brings Switzerland to one million working poor, according to the article.

At least 5000 francs after the apprenticeship

This is where the SP wants to start. Marti wants to reach the minimum wage of CHF 5,000 with greater coverage of collective labor contracts (GAV). The Basel-based National Council is convinced that a collective agreement will help to achieve this goal. “Especially in retail, logistics, journalism or agriculture.”

The comrades want to modernize local wage protection to be compatible with European law. This should be done through the EU minimum wage directive. For example, precisely the party that has always had a differentiated view of an institutional link with the EU because of wage protection wants to adopt the EU’s wage protection measures.

Strong wage protection not only dependent on the EU

With the minimum wage directive, the EU is breaking new ground to protect wages and purchasing power, says Marti. And: “If we can improve wage protection in a way that is compatible with EU law, then we should do it,” she told CH Media.

During the exploratory talks that Switzerland is having with the EU, a package solution is being discussed. However, strong wage protection does not depend solely on the EU, says Marti. Switzerland must also “do everything domestically” so that it can once again create a supportive European alliance ranging from trade unions to SP, greens, green liberals to the center and FDP.

The European Council approved the Minimum Wage Directive in October. With the exception of Denmark, Finland, Italy, Sweden and Austria, all EU countries now have a minimum wage.

Only four cantons have a minimum wage

To this day, Switzerland has no national minimum wage. “That would of course be the best solution,” says Marti. But the bourgeois parties have so far strongly opposed it. After all, four cantons have a minimum wage: Geneva (23.27 francs), Basel-Stadt (21 francs), Neuchâtel (20.08 francs), Jura (20 francs) and Ticino (19 to 19.50 francs).

That is why reforms in wage protection are necessary in Switzerland, says Cédric Wermuth (37), co-chairman of the SP. His party tried to get the signatures of middle-class MPs for the postulate. But few would have signed. “This is disappointing.” (Okay)

Source:Blick