« Do not pay our job »: employer boss outraged
Swiss economy
« Listing wages are not our job »: employer boss is outraged by statement
The director of the Swiss employers’ association provides outrage with a statement. He believes that wages in Switzerland do not have to go to life – instead, social assistance must step in.
«You cannot demand from employers or the economy to ensure that they secure existence. It stops somewhere. » Roland A. Müller made this statement at a hearing to the National Council’s Economic Commission, as reported by the “Blick”, citing existing protocols.
Roland A. Müller causes a sensation with a delicate statement.
The controversial statements by the employer director took place as part of the debate about cantonal minimum wages. The question is whether the federal government may tip like. The business associations and the bourgeois are basically for this – for example, if an overall employment contract (GAV) is agreed with deeper wages in an industry.
Employer boss Müller relativizes his statements compared to the glance. Of course, the goal is that workers could live on their own wages is undisputed. However, there are some industries in which existential wages are not possible because the companies would generate too little. Minimum wages that were too high would ensure that these jobs would completely disappear.
He is also convinced:
« No employer deliberately pays deep wages to screw up the bonuses. »
It is clear to the employer side that cantonal minimum wage resolutions that the federal government cannot influence would result in a patchwork and would “put the whole structure into danger”, as Müller puts it. But it is also clear that the industry associations have more influence on the amount of minimum wages if they can negotiate via GAV themselves – instead of having to bow to possible cantonal referendums without a direct negotiation option. (Con/watson.ch)
