Minimum pay revives rift in Berlin coalition

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Series Details 13.2.08
Publication Date 13/02/2008
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Germany’s ruling grand coalition plunged into a new battle over minimum wages on the 12 February 2008, when the Christian Democrats of Angela Merkel, the Chancellor, attacked proposals to establish legally binding basic pay for 600,000 employees of temporary work agencies.

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Deutsche Bank: Talking Point, February 2008: Minimum wages mushrooming - can they be stopped? http://www.dbresearch.de/servlet/reweb2.ReWEB?rwkey=u46006332

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