Ljubljana – The parliamentary Labour Committee discussed the minimum wage in two separate sessions on Tuesday. The committee members rejected a proposal for an increase in minimum wage beyond the 4.9% rise set by the labour minister. Labour Minister Janez Cigler Kralj announced in early January that this year the minimum wage would be adjusted to last year’s inflation and would thus increase by 4.9% to EUR 1,074.43 gross. The opposition Social Democrats (SD) and Left, which had requested the sessions, respectively, called for the higher increase, arguing that the…
