AUTHOR PROFILE
The landmark ruling validates the directive's approach to adequate wages and collective bargaining, dealing only minor setbacks to its implementation across Europe.
EU’s minimum wage directive is under threat.
The directive has already changed the landscape on setting minimum wages and extending collective bargaining.
The directive fundamentally strengthens collective bargaining and trade union power.
The European Parliament has upped the ante, beyond a European Commission proposal, on a minimum-wages directive.
The draft minimum-wage directive is a crucial first step but more needs to follow on the way to a social Europe.
The principle of a European minimum wage is established. How it should be set is not.
On 26 April, the European Commission launched its proposal for a European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) as a flagship initiative to strengthen the EU’s