Minimal wage from 1 July 2024

PLN 4,300 gross is the brand new minimal wage in 2024, and the hourly price is PLN 28.10 gross. This isn’t as vital a rise as at first of this yr (from January 1, 2024, the minimal wage elevated from PLN 3,600 to PLN 4,242, and the minimal hourly price – from PLN 23.50 to PLN 27.70), nevertheless it won’t go unnoticed by entrepreneurs. In wage report ready by LSJ HR Group for blue collar positions we learn that 70% of corporations using staff in manufacturing and warehouse positions from the Szczecin Metropolitan Space don’t plan any adjustments in salaries.

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Minimal wage up, what do entrepreneurs say?

Once we discuss “blue collars” we must always perceive all workers who carry out handbook/bodily work. These embody warehouse staff, manufacturing staff, forklift and machine operators, welders and assemblers. Because the authors of the report declare, The present enhance within the minimal wage that we’re seeing just isn’t drastic when it comes to quantity, as the biggest adjustments in minimal wages occurred in January of this yr. Nonetheless, that is one other enhance within the cycle. 12 months-on-year, the minimal wage is once more growing by virtually 20%. Analyzing the longer interval from January 2020 to at present, the minimal wage has elevated by over 65%.

– If we additionally have in mind the rise in different prices of doing enterprise, every subsequent enhance within the minimal wage has a major influence on the functioning of enterprises – attracts consideration to the importance of those adjustments – says Maria Skowrońska, Operations Supervisor at LSJ HR Group.

– Wage stress won’t weaken within the close to future. In 6 months, we’ll see one other enhance within the minimal wage – this time to PLN 4,626, or by 7.6 %. That is greater than the common annual inflation, so we’re nonetheless coping with an actual enhance in labor prices – emphasizes Prof. Dr. Hab. Aneta Zelek from the West Pomeranian Enterprise Faculty – Academy of Utilized Sciences.

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Minimal wage will increase and what about employment?

Greater than half of the employers surveyed plan to maintain employment at an unchanged stage over the subsequent six months, 14 entities (40%) are forecasting a rise in employment. Solely 2 employers (6%) are planning to cut back employment, and these are employers who maintained employment at a continuing stage within the second half of 2023. You will need to observe that out of the group of 10 corporations that decreased employment within the second half of 2023, none are planning additional reductions. Six employers plan to keep up the extent of employment, and 4 corporations they intend to extend the dimensions of the workforce.

It will appear that such a weaker financial state of affairs would result in vital adjustments within the labor market, particularly within the context of the worker market. Nonetheless, unemployment stays at a document low (round 5%) and there’s no indication that the bargaining energy of employers will change.

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