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Spain: Employers call for minimum wage increase to be delayed

In late April 2008, the CEOE employers' confederation called on the government to delay planned increases in the national minimum wage until 2010, in the light of the difficult economic situation.

The socialist government was re-elected in March 2008 with a commitment to increase the statutory national minimum wage from the current €600 per month to €800 by 2012; an increase of 33% over four years.