The consultations will take place on November 11-20 and the results will be presented to the VKF, a forum of unions, employers and government representatives, on November 22.

Economic players’ ability to shoulder burdens, which correlates to their productivity, needs to be taken into account when establishing wage policy, MKIK said.

The time has come to get to know where a wider circle of businesses stand on the matter, it added.

MKIK is also launching a representative survey of several hundred companies that will allow businesses to weigh in.