Minimum wage entitlements

The amounts of minimum wage entitlements guarantee the lower limit of the amount of employee’s wage, depending on the difficulty of the work performed. Minimum wage entitlements are applied only if the conditions for the remuneration of employees are not agreed upon in a collective bargaining agreement (§ 120 of the Labour Code).

In 2021, the increase in minimum wage entitlements for each degree of work difficulty compared to 2020 is the same; i.e. regardless of the difficulty of the work performed, at each level of work intensity the minimum wage entitlement will increase by the same amount, which corresponds to an increase in the minimum wage, i.e. in this case, of EUR 43. In the following years, the increase in minimum wage entitlements will be linked exclusively to the year-on-year change in the monthly minimum wage. The amount will increase by the difference between individual calendar years. The basis for the calculation will still be EUR 580 (the monthly minimum wage for calendar year 2020), which is multiplied by the relevant coefficient (1.2 – 1.4 – 1.6 – 1.8 – 2.0), and to this amount in the individual years, the amount that represents the increase (the difference) between the amount of the monthly minimum calendar year 2020 (EUR 580) and the amount of the monthly minimum wage for the relevant calendar year will be added.

The amount of the minimum wage entitlement for the relevant degree for the relevant calendar year for each hour worked by the employee at the established weekly working time of 40 hours is 1/174 of the amount of the minimum wage entitlement per month.

An employer is obligated to assign a degree of difficulty to each job by comparing the most demanding work activity with the characteristics of the degrees of difficulty of jobs.