Wages and purchasing power returned to the Chamber through the whole 2023–2028 legislature, from the question on the EU directive on adequate minimum wages in February 2024 to the declaration on the tripartite Resilienzpak agreement in June 2026. The sittings covered the level and the indexation of the social minimum wage, the transposition of the European directive, electricity prices and the price cap, the point value in the public service, cold progression, and the packages meant to support purchasing power. The quotes below are taken verbatim from the Compte rendu officiel of each sitting.
\nOn 12 December 2024, during the vote on the bill raising the social minimum wage by 2.6 % from 1 January 2025, Charles Weiler stated the new monthly figures for the unqualified minimum wage.
\n\n\nDe Mindestloun fir net qualifizéiert Aarbechter geet vun 2.570,93 Euro op 2.637,79 Euro erop, wat enger Erhéijung pro Mount vu 66,86 Euro entsprécht.
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The minimum wage for unqualified workers goes from 2,570.93 euros to 2,637.79 euros, which is an increase of 66.86 euros a month.
\nSitting of 12 December 2024, Charles Weiler, CSV
\nOn 20 May 2026, in the debate on the index and the minimum wage increase announced for 1 January 2027, Laurent Zeimet stated the size of the announced increase.
\n\n\nOp den 1. Januar 2027 soll de Mindestloun ëm ronn 175 Euro klammen.
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On 1 January 2027 the minimum wage is to rise by about 175 euros.
\nSitting of 20 May 2026, Laurent Zeimet, CSV
\nOn 20 March 2025, during the heure d’actualité on the rise in electricity prices after the price cap was halved, Gilles Baum defended the partial price cap by saying that almost no other EU country still has one.
\n\n\nHeizou wëll ech nach emol ënnersträichen, dass bal keen anert Land an der Europäescher Unioun méi e Präisdeckel oder, wéi bei eis, e partielle Präisdeckel huet.
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On this I want to underline once more that almost no other country in the European Union still has a price cap, or, as with us, a partial price cap.
\nSitting of 20 March 2025, Gilles Baum, DP
\nOn 20 May 2026, in the state of the nation debate, Gilles Baum stated that strengthening purchasing power was implemented policy, citing the 2025 adjustment of the tax table.
\n\n\nJo, d’Kafkraaft stäerken, dat war fir d’Regierung kee Walslogan, mee Realpolitick, déi mir an de leschte Joren och ëmgesat hunn, zum Beispill wéi mer 2025 d’Steiertabell ëm 2,5 Indextranchë berengegt hunn.
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Yes, strengthening purchasing power was no election slogan for the government but real policy that we implemented in recent years, for example when in 2025 we adjusted the tax table by 2.5 index brackets.
\nSitting of 20 May 2026, Gilles Baum, DP
\nOn 12 December 2024, in the debate on the minimum wage bill and on the motion asking for a yearly review, Claude Haagen called the current adjustment mechanism good but no longer sufficient.
\n\n\nEis Meenung ass, datt deen aktuelle Mechanismus awer am Fong richteg gutt ass, ze begréissen ass, an awer net méi duergeet.
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Our view is that the current mechanism is basically good and welcome, but that it is no longer enough.
\nSitting of 12 December 2024, Claude Haagen, LSAP
\nOn 9 June 2026, in the debate on the tripartite Resilienzpak agreement and the 200 euro rise for the social minimum wage, Taina Bofferding said her party wanted a structural rise instead.
\n\n\nMir hätten eis, an dat wëll ech och ganz éierlech soen, eng strukturell Erhéijung gewënscht, dat wësst Der.
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We would have wanted, and I say this quite honestly, a structural increase, as you know.
\nSitting of 9 June 2026, Taina Bofferding, LSAP
\nOn 30 April 2025, during the vote on the salary agreement between the government and the CGFP, Alexandra Schoos pointed to the loss of purchasing power in the private sector.
\n\n\nEt sollt een an deem Zesummenhang net vergiessen, dass och d’Leit am Privatsecteur massiv u Kafkraaft verluer hunn.
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In that context you should not forget that people in the private sector have also lost purchasing power massively.
\nSitting of 30 April 2025, Alexandra Schoos, ADR
\nOn 9 June 2026, in the debate on the tripartite agreement, Fred Keup criticised the agreement for leaving the minimum pension out.
\n\n\nEch wëll awer och direkt eppes soen, wat hei vergiess ginn ass: Et muss een och mënschewierdeg hei am Land kënne liewe mat enger Pensioun.
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But I also want to say straight away what has been forgotten here: you must also be able to live in dignity in this country on a pension.
\nSitting of 9 June 2026, Fred Keup, ADR
\nOn 12 December 2024, in the debate on the minimum wage bill, Djuna Bernard demanded that the minimum wage be tied to the reference budget.
\n\n\nMir fuerderen, kohärent mat eisem Walprogramm, dass de Mindestloun direkt un de Budget de référence gekoppelt gëtt.
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In line with our election programme, we demand that the minimum wage be linked directly to the reference budget.
\nSitting of 12 December 2024, Djuna Bernard, déi gréng
\nOn 14 October 2025, during the interpellation and the motion asking for a 100 euro rise of the social minimum wage, Djuna Bernard stated a figure for full-time workers at risk of poverty.
\n\n\nMir schwätze vun 12,2 % vun de Leit, déi voll schaffen an déi ënnert dem Taux de risque de pauvreté leien.
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We are talking about 12.2% of the people who work full time and who are below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold.
\nSitting of 14 October 2025, Djuna Bernard, déi gréng
\nOn 12 December 2024, in the debate on the minimum wage bill, Marc Goergen stated that the minimum wage is too low to live on.
\n\n\nWell de Mindestloun hei zu Lëtzebuerg geet nun emol net duer, fir ze liewen oder ze iwwerliewen.
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Because the minimum wage here in Luxembourg is simply not enough to live or to survive on.
\nSitting of 12 December 2024, Marc Goergen, Piraten
\nOn 20 May 2026, in the continuation of the state of the nation debate on the cost-of-living package, Sven Clement called for an end to cold progression.
\n\n\nMir mussen ophalen, eise Biergerinnen a Bierger duerch d’kal Progressioun méi ofzehuelen, wéi se dobäigewannen.
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We must stop taking more from our citizens through cold progression than they gain.
\nSitting of 20 May 2026, Sven Clement, Piraten
\nOn 28 February 2024, in the question élargie on the transposition of the EU directive on adequate minimum wages, Marc Baum stated that the Commission found in 2022 that the Luxembourg minimum wage misses the directive’s reference values.
\n\n\nD’EU-Kommissioun huet schonn 2022 festgestallt, datt de Mindestloun zu Lëtzebuerg déi Riichtwäerter net erfëllt.
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The EU Commission already found in 2022 that the minimum wage in Luxembourg does not meet those reference values.
\nSitting of 28 February 2024, Marc Baum, déi Lénk
\nOn 20 May 2026, in the continuation of the state of the nation debate, David Wagner argued that wages below a living level mean profits are not fairly shared.
\n\n\nWann e Lounempfänger vu senger Aarbecht net liewe kann, da kann een net vu gerecht ëmverdeelte Profitter schwätzen.
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If a wage earner cannot live from their work, then you cannot speak of fairly redistributed profits.
\nSitting of 20 May 2026, David Wagner, déi Lénk
\nOn 18 November 2025, in the question hour on the calculation of the minimum wage after the Court of Justice ruling of 11 November 2025, the Minister of Labour denied that the directive obliges member states to reach 60 percent of the median wage.
\n\n\nEt ass deemno net richteg ze behaapten, dass laut Direktiv all EU-Land dozou obligéiert ass, derfir ze suergen, dass den nationale Mindestloun op d’mannst 60 % vum Medianloun oder 50 % vum Duerchschnëttsloun entsprécht.
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It is therefore not correct to claim that under the directive every EU country is obliged to make sure that its national minimum wage matches at least 60 percent of the median wage or 50 percent of the average wage.
\nSitting of 18 November 2025, Georges Mischo, Ministre du Travail
\nOn 9 June 2026, in the government declaration on the tripartite Resilienzpak agreement, the Prime Minister presented the new tax credit as compensation for a further index tranche.
\n\n\nDësen neie Steierkreditt kompenséiert eng weider Indextranche, wat grad an Zäite vun héijer Inflatioun wichteg fir d’Leit ass.
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This new tax credit compensates a further index tranche, which matters for people precisely in times of high inflation.
\nSitting of 9 June 2026, Luc Frieden, Premier ministre
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