Wage-setting in Hungary - From a Labour Law Perspective

Authors

  • Attila Kun Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary (KRE), Faculty of Law, Department of Labour Law and Social Security; Hungarian National University of Public Service (NKE), Faculty of Public Governance and International Studies, Department of Human Resources

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1561-8048/9989

Keywords:

Wage-setting, Minimum Wage, Wage-bargaining, Flexibility, Equal Pay for Equal Work

Abstract

The aim of the present paper is to analyse the structure and main labour-law related issues of wage-setting in Hungary. First, after the introduction, in Chapter 2, the paper deals with the hierarchy of the different sources of wage-setting. In this context, three main levels – and their problematic issues – are analyzed: a) statutory, central-level wage-setting (including the national minimum wage); b) collective bargaining and wage-bargaining; c) individual bargaining, the role of the employment contract, and the main tendencies of corporate practices in wage-setting. Chapter 3 describes some selected, remarkable examples for especially flexible and overly inflexible regulatory solutions in terms of wage-setting. Chapter 4 takes account of the state of play of the equal pay for equal work principle within Hungarian labour law. Chapter 5. concludes and sums up the paper by briefly sketching some of the most important and relevant observations of the EU’s economic governance process in relation to the Hungarian mechanism of wage-setting.

 

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Published

2019-12-17

How to Cite

Kun, A. (2019). Wage-setting in Hungary - From a Labour Law Perspective. Italian Labour Law E-Journal, 12(2), 23–43. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1561-8048/9989

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