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> Denmark doesn't have a minimum wage and they're doing okay. It’s more complicated than that, and you know it, or you’re using that fact to further your point
by yladiz 3y ago
> Denmark doesn't have a minimum wage and they're doing okay.
It’s more complicated than that, and you know it, or you’re using that fact to further your point somewhat disingenuously. Yes, there in no minimum wage defined by law, but in practice it’s around €20 due to the collective bargaining agreements (read: unions) in most industries.
- astrange 3y agoSo it doesn't have a minimum wage. There's nothing to hide here. Just look at the median wage in both places. Or in this case, the lowest 10% wage. I prefer Australia's wage board system, but I think nobody knows how it works because they're Australian so they've given stupid names to everything. Try and guess what "award" and "casual loading" mean.
- yladiz 3y agoIt doesn’t have a de jure minimum wage, but it does have a de facto one, and just saying it doesn’t hides the subtlety of that.
- RugnirViking 3y agoI disagree. I live here and regularly see people exploited. It's not uncommon for students from romania/moldavia/bulgaria being paid a literal token fee per hour just so they can register enough hours to claim SU. Job listings advertising this fact brazenly, because its not even illegal... Similarly a whole bunch of workers here in nordjylland's factory farms get paid ridiculously low salaries per hour. We're talking 70kr per hour or less.
- mannerheim 3y agoPlenty of Danes make less than that. Stages at Noma used to make absolutely no money at all.