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Debunking the “highest minimum wage increase” lie

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Mark Camilleri
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Prime Minister Robert Abela is trying very hard to salvage his political career by supposedly becoming a socialist. He is selling his minimum wage increases as the highest “minimum wage increases in history”. This claim is preposterous and absolutely untrue. According to Robert Abela’s own figures, the minimum wage will be increasing by a maximum nominal total ofย  15% in 2027 raising the minimum wage to around ย€960 per month from next year’s ย€854. In Malta, we have seen inflation rates at 7% and food prices by more than 10%, and a previous average salary increase of 20% over Joseph Muscat’s years versus a 100% increase in property prices at the same time.

What Robert Abela has proposed is a bloody joke and is being hyped up in the usual corrupt and fraudulent fashion.

The biggest salary increases and raises to the minimum wage in Malta happened during the second half of the 1970s when the minimum wage for most jobs increased from 1974 to 1979 by at least 35% and with for most jobs being at least 40%, with the inflation rate in Malta in 1974 being at 7% which was subdued compared to Europe due to successfully discounted oil purchases relative to market prices. Food inflation was even higher. The inflation crisis in the 1970s was caused by similar commodity shocks of 2022 and took place in an en environment of raising interest rates and crediting tightening conditions.

The world was not invented yesterday by these imbeciles who think it’s a big bloody deal to go on television and articulate what the hell they are supposed to be doing in the name of public service.

 

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  1. Kimura avatar
    Kimura

    For all this spittle about Malta being the best in Europe and subsidised fuel here are six countries with a minimum monthly salary above ?1,500. They are Luxembourg, Belgium (?1,842), Ireland (?1,775), the Netherlands (?1,756), Germany (?1,744), and France (?1,646). When can the Maltese worker/s ever hope to enjoy such minimum wages? For starters RA should have focused on removing the discriminatory wages paid to all those employed in the tourist Industry who are not paid the normal over time rates for extra hours worked or Sundays and Public holidays. This is also the case for all drivers who work in the transport Industry who are employed by Malta’s Transport Contractors. This anomaly in the way workers in the tourist industry are paid was introduced in the sixties in order to assist Malta’s fledgling tourist Industry and has remained in place for these past 6 decades. Since those early days tourisim in Malta has improved in leaps and bounds and yet those employed in this Industry and other ancillary activites still suffer discrimination in the way they are paid. To compound matters this past decade we have experienced the mass influx and exploitation of TCNs under the lame excuse that Maltese do not want to work in this industry. These TCNs continue to encourage discriminatroy low wages in the tourist and transport Industries simply because the supply now exceeds the demand. If the GWU and UHM really want to help and support exploited workers they need look no further than those employed in these Industries. In actual fact these workers will not really be experiencing the same increase in their minimum wage as other workers because when they work overtime or work Sundays or Public holidays they will be paid at the flat hourly rate. This is the worst type of precariat where workers in one Industry are paid less than others working in different industries.

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