Dr. Laura Bambrick:

I will let my colleague talk about the public sector. With regard to the minimum wage, however, our two colleagues who did not sign off on the Low Pay Commission recommendation made a minority report. They recommended in their report that the increase would be done in a two-step approach.

This is exactly what Germany did. Although the minimum wage there went from €9.82 at the start of the year to €12, there was a midpoint, in June, when it increased to €10.40. In our recommendation and minority report-----