Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-02-28-Speech-4-070"
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"It is a good idea to know how much European workers earn, because it will enable us to measure wage disparities. This is the reason why we voted for this regulation. However, its very title reveals its true colours: wages themselves are considered to be costs.
Costs for whom, exactly? For society? For the workers themselves, in terms of health, for example? No, of course not. The costs are those borne by the bosses. Or to be more precise and not to beat about the bush, the obstacle to their profits. From here, it is only a very small step to state that certain workers cost too much.
To truly take into account all of the costs borne by companies, we also need to add up the bosses’ salaries and the expenditure that is borne by society as a whole: direct or indirect government aid to companies and payments to shareholders. For our part, we would like to make use of this information in order to fight for the total harmonisation of wages at the European level."@en1
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