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I am living in Germany, the removal of the German minimum wage in the postage sector resulted in effectively more companies providing post service, but for the
by Loic 11y ago
I am living in Germany, the removal of the German minimum wage in the postage sector resulted in effectively more companies providing post service, but for the end user, the price has not changed at all. But you see a lot of people bringing the mail in nearly destroyed cars, with the look of miserable people. I am all for competition, but in this case, the net benefit for the end users is zero and it created extremely low pay jobs.
The competitors of Deutsche Post are now using special structures not to pay the minimum wage to people (they are contractors) and this pushes Deutsche Post to do the same.
So, for this case, it was not good. In fact, the people in Germany pushed to get a minimum wage for all employees and the right wing government accepted. It shows you how bad the lack of minimum wage was for the people.
- Kristine1975 11y agoThe government accepted, but with a lot of loopholes for companies.
- adwn 11y agoExactly. We as a society really do not need businesses whose sole competitive advantage consists of paying lower wages than existing companies.
- johnchristopher 11y agoThe same thing is happening in Belgium. Once the post (Bpost) was profitable our elected overlords began selling 49% their shares in it to something-i-dont-remember and... the danish post.