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Minimum wage in Germany climbs on 8,84 Euro from 2017

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Hotel workers in Germany will get money from 2017 – The minimum wage will be increased to 8,44 Euro per hour. For hotels this means only easy additional burden.

Minimum wage has been implemented in 2015 and amounts actually 8,50 Euro per hour. In Germany however, more and more hotels has huge problems to hire employees due to bad payments.

Now, a general manager from Hamburg tried to solve it by paying one third more for cooks.

Carsten Hennig

Carsten Hennig

Carsten Hennig, born in 1970 in Bavaria, Germany, is founder and anchorman of HOTELIER TV & RADIO, World's leading newscast channel for hospitality management. Watch and listen to www.hoteliertv.

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