Higher minimum wage threatens Hungarian leather sector

21 December 2005




Employers' associations within Hungary's light industry sector say that an agreement signed in late November raising the minimum wage in Hungary by 10% may result in large-scale redundancies among companies in the leather industry, according to the Interfax news agency. Some companies may even be forced to close, said the report.



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