By Chris Udochukwu
Abuja (Precise Post) – The world’s second most expensive city, Geneva is set to introduce ‘the world’s highest minimum wage’ which will equate to £41,430 ($53,370) a year – around £3,500 ($4,510) a month.
The Swiss city, which has a voter population of around 500,000, held a referendum with two-thirds backing the new measure.
The alterations, which had been rejected by voters twice before in both 2011 and 2014, will now come into effect from October 17.
Geneva is the world’s second most expensive city, according to a cost-of-living index compiled by Expatistan.
But it was hit particularly hard by the outbreak of Covid-19 due to its reliance on revenue from tourists and business visitors.
It has suffered growing coronavirus-linked poverty as families have become increasingly reliant on provisions from food banks – with queues of more than half a mile long forming at the peak of the pandemic.
Michel Charrat is the president of the Groupement Transfrontalier Europeen – an organization that represents cross-border workers in France and Switzerland.
