For the purpose of ensuring that a posted worker receives the correct pay and provided that allowances specific to posting can be considered part of minimum rates of pay, such allowances should only be deducted from wages if national law, collective agreements and/or practice of the host Member State provide for this.

The relevant information should, in particular, cover the different minimum rates of pay and their constituent elements, the method used to calculate the remuneration due and, where relevant, the qualifying criteria for classification in the different wage categories.

5. Hopes that the action plan will be implemented in full; welcomes, in this connection, the decision of the Bangladeshi Government to raise the minimum wage in the coming weeks, which will affect some 4 million, mostly female workers, and urges the Bangladeshi Government to sanction companies that are undercutting this wage; encourages the government to keep reviewing the minimum wage in order to reach the level of a living wage; expects employers’ associations to honour their commitment to redeploy the workers that were rendered unemployed by the accidents as well as rehabilitated workers, and calls on the government, additionally, ...[+++]to pass legislation in order to protect trade union members from being sacked for pursuing legitimate union activities by their employers;

The agreed level of remuneration shall be presumed to have been at least as high as the wage provided for by the applicable laws on minimum wages, by collective agreements or in accordance with established practice in the relevant occupational branches, unless either the employer or the employee can prove otherwise, while respecting, where appropriate, the mandatory national provisions on wages.

We interpret the wording concerning a legislative proposal ‘to guarantee a minimum income’ as referring to what we in Sweden call supplementary benefits and not to the introduction of a minimum wage system.

In Spain, there are many gaps in legislation to protect young people: for example there are no regulations on nightwork, no medical supervision of young people under the age of 18 working in family businesses and young self‑employed workers not covered by labour law, the law does not guarantee the right of children working in family businesses and young self-employed workers to the full benefit of compulsory education, the minimum age for young people to go to work is not enforced in practice, no account is taken of the maximum number ...[+++] of working hours, and the minimum wage is not always guaranteed.