Germany: Further binding sectoral rates agreed
Trade union and employers' organisations have agreed binding legal minimum wage rates in two new industries, under the provisions of Germany's Posted Workers Law, and sectors employing 1.8 million workers are now covered by such rates, as at late September 2009.
The 1996 Posted Workers Law (Arbeitnehmer-Entsendegesetz) allows collectively agreed minimum wage rates to be applied to all employers and employees in a particular industry (Germany has no statutory national minimum wage).
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