日內瓦設最高"最低工資"

Highest minimum monthly salary

日內瓦設最高“最低工資”

Geneva is introducing the highest minimum monthly salary in the world this month, in response to a referendum at the end of September. The new hourly rate of 23 Swiss francs ($25.28) will give a minimum monthly salary of 4,000 francs.

作為對9月底全民公投的迴應，瑞士日內瓦自本月起實施全球最高的最低工資標準：每小時23瑞士法郎，每月4000瑞士法郎。

This Swiss canton may be rich but it is also home to tens of thousands of hotel workers, waiters, cleaners and hairdressers who struggle to make ends meet.

日內瓦也許很富裕，但這裏也居住着成千上萬努力維持生計的酒店從業者、服務員、清潔工和理髮師。

When Switzerland went into lockdown in March, images of lines of people at food banks in Geneva made headlines.

今年3月瑞士實施封鎖措施時，人們在日內瓦食物銀行前排隊的畫面登上了新聞頭條。

The new minimum wage will make a difference to many people.

新的最低工資標準將對許多人產生影響。

Businesses offering less than 23 francs an hour will now have to give employees a pay rise.

時薪低於23瑞士法郎的企業現在必須給員工加薪。

To have to bear this new cost in the middle of the Covid pandemic and a drastic drop in profits could cause more harm than good, fears Vincent Subilia of Geneva's Chamber of Commerce.

日內瓦商會的文森特·蘇比萊亞擔心，在新冠疫情持續和利潤急降的情況下，企業不得不承擔這一新的成本可能會弊大於利。