Welcome to WAGE-UP, the ETUC Monitoring Tool presenting information on Minimum Wage setting procedures and Collective Bargaining systems in all EU countries, as well as the progress in EU countries toward the transposition (by November 15, 2024) and the implementation of all the provisions of the Directive on adequate minimum wages in the EU (2022/2041).  

The adoption of the EU Directive on adequate minimum wages marked a pivotal moment for social justice across the European Union, aiming to ensure adequate minimum wages, improving the collective bargaining coverage, and improving living and working conditions of millions of workers. However, its true impact depends entirely on the effective transposition into national laws. 

The ETUC has been involved in the Expert Group for the transposition of the Directive, which produced a Report that aims at supporting the legislative work leading to the transposition of the Directive in Member States, and favouring a better common understanding of its provisions also in the implementation phase. Please have a look at Report Expert Group - Transposition of Directive (EU) 2022/2041 on adequate minimum wages in the European Union.

Together with our affiliates' guidance and based on provisions in the Directive, we have identified 30 indicators that we are tracking, which contain data and figures about, e.g. wage levels, adequacy indexes (minimum wage as % of median and average wage), collective bargaining coverage, but also gender pay gap, in-work poverty and many other information concerning national industrial relations.

Moreover, thanks to the comparison tool, it is possible to compare the different values for the different countries selected.

Currently, the website is available in beta version. It will be further developed in upcoming months, and it will be also possible to view and download infographics and national reports. Data will be updated twice per year.

We thank all the ETUC affiliates for their contribution in developing this tool. Without their work it would have not been possible to ensure such comprehensive and holistic picture of Minimum Wage setting procedures and Collective Bargaining systems in all EU countries.

Wage-up - raising wages and equality

 "Wage-up" project builds upon the outcomes of the ETUC project “New Frontiers for Collective Bargaining”, that increased the capacity of trade unions by identifying new frontiers for collective bargaining, creating a deeper understanding of the issue of equal pay for work of equal value, and exploring how to extend collective bargaining to meet the challenges post COVID-19. A series of documents were developed in the framework of the project's activities. A Guidance on emerging topics, a Checklist for Negotiating Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value, and a Report on Equal pay. All these documents are available in several languages in the Resources section of this website.

The new project "Wage-up - raising wages and equality" aims to support ETUC members to play a strong role in an ambitious transposition of the two Directives - Directive on Adequate Minimum Wage and Gender Pay Transparency Directive - and to strengthen collective bargaining.

On the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive, the project aims at strengthening the role of social partners in defining statutory minimum wages and in defining practices for strengthening collective bargaining via the Directive.

UnionShare is an online repository of clauses and agreements on the following collective bargaining issues: work time reduction, workers' data and surveillance, the fight against the far right and equal pay. UnionShare was developed in the framework of the ETUC's project "New Frontiers for Collective Bargaining", co-funded by the European Commission. The project aims at promoting and strengthening collective bargaining at all levels by extending its scope and developing bargaining strategies to incorporate emerging issues as well as gender inequalities into negotiations.

UnionShare is the repository of clauses and agreements on work time reduction, workers’ privacy and surveillance, the fight against the far right and equal pay – a list of topics that may be expanded in the future.
It is inspired by the principle of solidarity and aims at collecting and sharing examples of clauses and agreements, but also union policies and best practices, negotiated by ETUC affiliates on the different topics under consideration.

 
Access to examples and experience by other trade unions in Europe will support those who are now approaching negotiations on these topics. Ultimately, UnionShare will support collective bargaining at all levels, by extending its scope to these emerging topics and supporting Unions who wish to tackle them.