The government of Poland is right to try to increase minimum wage coverage of workers, but its proposal how to do it has several drawbacks which can hurt jobs.
The draft Polish budget for 2016 was prepared in unusual conditions. It was originally adopted in September 2015 by the coalition government of the Civic Platform (PO) and the Polish People’s Party (PSL). When Law and Justice (PiS) seized power, a new draft budget was prepared, yet in many respects it was similar to the draft made by the previous coalition government.
The growth dynamics of foreign debt and the share of foreign investors in sovereign Polish debt has been unusually high in recent years. According to Eurostat data, at the end of 2014 Poland was ranked 11th in the EU in terms of the share of non-residents’ holdings of government debt.
Conference on jobs and development took place on December 3-4 in New Delhi with a focus on labour regulations, informality, demography and job creation in South Asia.
Conference on urbanization, structural change, and employment took place in Hong Kong on December 11-13 as a part of the Network on Jobs and Development activities.
In majority of CEE countries, trade union membership declined sharply after the economic transition.
