>when you are below some wage, the government pays you some money for the "gap"
Sounds like corporate welfare - companies don't have to provide a decent wage if the government will make up the difference.
Sounds like corporate welfare - companies don't have to provide a decent wage if the government will make up the difference.
The current government promised a 8,50EUR minumum wage.
Fun fact: The leftist German news paper TAZ who was fighting for minumum wage for quite some time, argued against the minumum wage for it's intern as "not possible".
[1] e.g. when you are below some wage, the government pays you some money for the "gap"