Highest minimum monthly salary

日内瓦设最高“最低工资”

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.

作为对9月底全民公投的回应，瑞士日内瓦自本月起实施全球最高的最低工资标准：每小时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.

日内瓦也许很富裕，但这里也居住着成千上万努力维持生计的酒店从业者、服务员、清洁工和理发师。

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

今年3月瑞士实施封锁措施时，人们在日内瓦食物银行前排队的画面登上了新闻头条。

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

新的最低工资标准将对许多人产生影响。

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

时薪低于23瑞士法郎的企业现在必须给员工加薪。

To have to bear this new cost in the middle of the Covid pandemic and a drastic¹ drop in profits could cause more harm than good, fears Vincent Subilia of Geneva's Chamber² of Commerce.

日内瓦商会的文森特·苏比莱亚担心，在新冠疫情持续和利润急降的情况下，企业不得不承担这一新的成本可能会弊大于利。