"No, let's not joke." Zandberg criticizes the minister's announcement

No, let's not joke. The government has proposed a minimum wage increase of less than 1 złoty per hour net, Adrian Zandberg of the Razem party told "Graffiti." This was a response to Minister Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk, who assured that the minimum wage increase would amount to no less than 140 złoty gross. According to Zandberg, the government is pursuing a policy of "tightening the belt around workers' bellies."

In Wednesday's "Graffiti", the Minister of Family, Labor and Social Policy , Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk, assured that "the minimum wage must keep up with inflation" and the proposal of some groups for an increase of PLN 50 "is absolutely unacceptable".

- This would be a de facto reduction, and this cannot be allowed (…) There is not, has not been and will not be an accepted proposal lower than PLN 140 gross - she said.

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Adrian Zandberg, co-chair of the Razem party, responded to Dziemianowicz-Bąk's declaration. "No, let's not joke," he said.

"The government has proposed a net minimum wage increase of less than one złoty per hour . This means that many households will find it very difficult to survive, given that the government plans to tighten its belt on workers next year," he said.

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He added that "we already know what the price increases for energy and heating, among other things, look like." "On the other hand, we also see that the policy of tightening the belt on workers' bellies is also hurting the Polish state. We talked about the minimum wage, but there's another elephant in the room: the salaries of public sector employees – teachers, civil servants . For these positions, there are no real pay raises planned for another year in a row," Zandberg said.

The co-chairman of the Razem party explained that the public sector pay raises following the change in government were "a compensation for the earlier inflationary blow." "There was a promise, and a valid one, that we need to start systemic pay raises in the public sector (...) How does that end? There are thousands of vacancies in the police and schools. The Polish state is functioning much worse than it could because austerity measures are hurting millions of citizens," he said.

According to Zandberg, the money for such increases could be found after the introduction of a tax on excess bank profits and a digital tax.

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