{"id":24470,"date":"2025-01-31T09:26:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T08:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/?p=24470"},"modified":"2025-01-31T09:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T08:26:35","slug":"minimum-wage-increase-in-2025-impact-and-who-will-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/minimum-wage-increase-in-2025-impact-and-who-will-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum Wage increase in 2025: Impact and who will benefit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On January 29, the <strong>Minimum Wage for 2025 was announced, setting it at \u20ac1,184 per month over 14 payments<\/strong>. This represents a <strong>4.4%<\/strong> increase compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new wage <strong>will be backdated to January 1, 2025<\/strong>, and is expected to have a major impact on the Spanish economy and millions of workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Who will benefit?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to estimates from Comisiones Obreras (CCOO), the wage increase will benefit about 2.1 million workers:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>1.8 million full-time employees (11.8% of the total workforce)<\/li>\n<li>263,000 part-time workers (a conservative estimate)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The actual number could be even higher, especially among part-time workers, as their average hourly wages tend to be lower.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Who will be most affected?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A CCOO study shows that the wage increase will have the biggest impact on certain groups:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Women: 15.6% will see a direct benefit.<\/li>\n<li>Young workers (16-34 years old): 17.2% will be affected.<\/li>\n<li>Temporary workers: 17.4% will benefit from the increase.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Which sectors and jobs will be most affected?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Sectors: Agriculture (38.7%), personal services (29%), retail and hospitality (19.3%).<\/li>\n<li>Jobs: Low-skilled roles (28%) and workers in hospitality, personal services, security, and retail (21.7%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This increase in the minimum wage is a key step toward better working conditions for low-wage workers, especially in sectors that have traditionally been underpaid.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The impact is expected to be especially significant for women, young workers, and those on temporary contracts, helping to narrow wage gaps in the Spanish labor market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For any questions, feel free to reach out to our <strong>labor experts<\/strong> at <strong>addwill <\/strong>via email (laboral@addwill.eu), phone (+34 93 487 52 00), or by <a href=\"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/contact-us\/\"><em>clicking here<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On January 29, the Minimum Wage for 2025 was announced, setting it at \u20ac1,184 per month over 14 payments. This represents a 4.4%  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":24464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1034],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-laboral-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24472,"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470\/revisions\/24472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addwill.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}