Greece to again raise minimum wage from April 1

The Greek government will raise the minimum wage next month, the third rise in more than a year, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday, months before its term ends.

Mitsotakis' conservative government, whose four-year term ends in July, raised the monthly gross minimum wage twice last year to 713 euros as households' incomes took a hit from persistently high inflation.

It now plans to increase the minimum wage by 9.4% to 780 euros a month from April 1, Mitsotakis said in televised statements after a meeting with Labor and Social Affairs Minister Kostis Hatzidakis who was expected to make statements later in the day.

"We are all aware that salaries in our country are still low, while imported inflation is putting additional pressure on them," Mitsotakis said.

"Obviously, this new rise will not solve the problem. But it will offer, for sure, a...