The CJEU ruling on the Adequate Minimum Wages Directive: Opening a door for progressive social experimentation? (Part II)
Arabadjieva, Kalina ; Katsaroumpas, Ioannis
03/12/2025
EU Directive ; minimum wage ; EU Court of Justice ; EU law ; workers rights
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"On 11 November 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU/Court) delivered the anxiously awaited judgment in Denmark v Parliament and Council (C-19/23). Save for a small part of it, the Court confirmed that the adoption of the Directive on adequate minimum wages from 2022 falls within the competences conferred on the Union by the EU Treaties. This was the most momentous judgment for the European trade union movement, and for EU labour lawyers, since the Viking and Laval duo in 2008; and it is likely to go down in history as one of the most significant CJEU rulings in the making of ‘Social Europe'."
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Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog, 03/12/2025
https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/the-cjeu-ruling-on-the-adequate-minimum-wages-directive-opening-a-door-for-progressive-social-experimentation-part-i/
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