‘Minimum wage should rise to 4,800TL-5,500TL’

Minimum wage for private sector workers might to between 4,800TL and 5,500TL before tax to reflect the cost of living, it has been claimed. 

The calls from a prominent trade union leader and consumer rights champion came after Finance Minister Serdar Denktaş announced that inflation for the first 11 months 2018 had been 32 per cent — later put at 29.96 per cent for the year as a whole — and that government fees were going up by between 28 and 30 per cent on New Year’s Day.

Türk-Sen trades unions federation head Arslan Bıçaklı said the minimum wage — set last August at 2,620TL gross per month, or 2,279TL net — needed to be at least 4,800TL, citing the cost of a simit (bread) and a cup of tea at 6TL or 7TL.

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